OTTR vs. PNW, OGE, IDA, POR, ALE, MGEE, HE, ARRY, UTL, and NEE
Should you be buying Otter Tail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Otter Tail include Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), ALLETE (ALE), MGE Energy (MGEE), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Array Technologies (ARRY), Unitil (UTL), and NextEra Energy (NEE). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
Otter Tail vs.
Otter Tail (NASDAQ:OTTR) and Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
61.3% of Otter Tail shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Otter Tail shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Pinnacle West Capital had 8 more articles in the media than Otter Tail. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital and 1 mentions for Otter Tail. Pinnacle West Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Otter Tail's score of 0.18 indicating that Pinnacle West Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Otter Tail pays an annual dividend of $1.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Otter Tail pays out 25.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pinnacle West Capital pays out 67.8% 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. Otter Tail has increased its dividend for 11 consecutive years and Pinnacle West Capital has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Pinnacle West Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Otter Tail has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pinnacle West Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Otter Tail. Otter Tail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pinnacle West Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Otter Tail has a net margin of 22.70% compared to Pinnacle West Capital's net margin of 12.26%. Otter Tail's return on equity of 19.84% beat Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity.
Pinnacle West Capital has a consensus target price of $84.65, suggesting a potential downside of 2.42%. Given Pinnacle West Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pinnacle West Capital is more favorable than Otter Tail.
Pinnacle West Capital received 139 more outperform votes than Otter Tail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.67% of users gave Otter Tail an outperform vote while only 41.69% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Pinnacle West Capital beats Otter Tail on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:OTTR) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
