VST vs. EIX, ETR, DTE, FE, PPL, ES, FTS, D, CNP, and EBR
Should you be buying Vistra stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vistra include Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), DTE Energy (DTE), FirstEnergy (FE), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), Fortis (FTS), Dominion Energy (D), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), and Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Vistra (NYSE:VST) and Edison International (NYSE:EIX) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
90.9% of Vistra shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.0% of Edison International shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Vistra shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Edison International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vistra pays an annual dividend of $0.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Edison International pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Vistra pays out 53.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Edison International pays out 136.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Edison International had 10 more articles in the media than Vistra. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Edison International and 14 mentions for Vistra. Edison International's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Vistra's score of 0.78 indicating that Edison International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vistra has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edison International has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Edison International received 458 more outperform votes than Vistra when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.44% of users gave Vistra an outperform vote while only 63.25% of users gave Edison International an outperform vote.
Edison International has a net margin of 6.14% compared to Vistra's net margin of 5.66%. Vistra's return on equity of 24.72% beat Edison International's return on equity.
Vistra has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Edison International. Edison International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vistra, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Vistra presently has a consensus target price of $82.50, suggesting a potential downside of 12.31%. Edison International has a consensus target price of $76.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.39%. Given Edison International's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Edison International is more favorable than Vistra.
Summary
Vistra beats Edison International on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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