WEC vs. PCG, SRE, D, PEG, ED, DTE, CNP, AEE, CMS, and NI
Should you be buying WEC Energy Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WEC Energy Group include PG&E (PCG), Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), DTE Energy (DTE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
WEC Energy Group (NYSE:WEC) and PG&E (NYSE:PCG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
WEC Energy Group has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PG&E has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PG&E received 441 more outperform votes than WEC Energy Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.22% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 52.43% of users gave WEC Energy Group an outperform vote.
WEC Energy Group has a net margin of 16.67% compared to PG&E's net margin of 10.05%. WEC Energy Group's return on equity of 13.01% beat PG&E's return on equity.
WEC Energy Group pays an annual dividend of $3.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. WEC Energy Group pays out 72.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
77.2% of WEC Energy Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of PG&E shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of WEC Energy Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PG&E 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.
In the previous week, WEC Energy Group had 2 more articles in the media than PG&E. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for WEC Energy Group and 17 mentions for PG&E. WEC Energy Group's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat PG&E's score of 0.46 indicating that WEC Energy Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
WEC Energy Group currently has a consensus price target of $86.29, indicating a potential upside of 9.39%. PG&E has a consensus price target of $19.75, indicating a potential upside of 9.06%. Given WEC Energy Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe WEC Energy Group is more favorable than PG&E.
PG&E has higher revenue and earnings than WEC Energy Group. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WEC Energy Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
WEC Energy Group beats PG&E on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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