TAC vs. PAM, KEN, HE, EDN, PNM, OTTR, BKH, ELP, ENIC, and AQN
Should you be buying TransAlta stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TransAlta include Pampa Energía (PAM), Kenon (KEN), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), PNM Resources (PNM), Otter Tail (OTTR), Black Hills (BKH), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), Enel Chile (ENIC), and Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
TransAlta (NYSE:TAC) and Pampa Energía (NYSE:PAM) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Pampa Energía received 13 more outperform votes than TransAlta when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.04% of users gave Pampa Energía an outperform vote while only 54.90% of users gave TransAlta an outperform vote.
Pampa Energía has a consensus target price of $41.33, indicating a potential downside of 13.69%. Given Pampa Energía's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pampa Energía is more favorable than TransAlta.
59.0% of TransAlta shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.8% of Pampa Energía shares are held by institutional investors. 13.1% of TransAlta shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 55.5% of Pampa Energía shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, TransAlta and TransAlta both had 1 articles in the media. Pampa Energía's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat TransAlta's score of 0.67 indicating that Pampa Energía is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pampa Energía has a net margin of 25.16% compared to TransAlta's net margin of 18.70%. TransAlta's return on equity of 45.47% beat Pampa Energía's return on equity.
TransAlta has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pampa Energía has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
TransAlta has higher revenue and earnings than Pampa Energía. TransAlta is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pampa Energía, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Pampa Energía beats TransAlta on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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