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ALLETE (ALE) Competitors

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$64.36 -0.18 (-0.28%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

ALE vs. PNW, OGE, IDA, POR, MGEE, OTTR, HE, UTL, ARRY, and NEE

Should you be buying ALLETE stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ALLETE include Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), MGE Energy (MGEE), Otter Tail (OTTR), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Unitil (UTL), Array Technologies (ARRY), and NextEra Energy (NEE). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.

ALLETE vs.

Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) and ALLETE (NYSE:ALE) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Pinnacle West Capital has a net margin of 12.26% compared to ALLETE's net margin of 11.49%. Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity of 9.60% beat ALLETE's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pinnacle West Capital12.26% 9.60% 2.43%
ALLETE 11.49%5.99%3.06%

Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ALLETE has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.6% of ALLETE shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of ALLETE shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Pinnacle West Capital received 101 more outperform votes than ALLETE when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 50.17% of users gave ALLETE an outperform vote while only 41.72% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Pinnacle West CapitalOutperform Votes
388
41.72%
Underperform Votes
542
58.28%
ALLETEOutperform Votes
287
50.17%
Underperform Votes
285
49.83%

Pinnacle West Capital has higher revenue and earnings than ALLETE. Pinnacle West Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ALLETE, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pinnacle West Capital$5.02B2.08$501.56M$5.2817.38
ALLETE$1.57B2.37$247.10M$3.1220.63

In the previous week, Pinnacle West Capital had 5 more articles in the media than ALLETE. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital and 9 mentions for ALLETE. ALLETE's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Pinnacle West Capital's score of 0.54 indicating that ALLETE is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Pinnacle West Capital
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
ALLETE
6 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Pinnacle West Capital presently has a consensus target price of $82.04, indicating a potential downside of 10.62%. ALLETE has a consensus target price of $62.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.67%. Given ALLETE's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ALLETE is more favorable than Pinnacle West Capital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pinnacle West Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.42
ALLETE
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. ALLETE pays an annual dividend of $2.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Pinnacle West Capital pays out 67.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ALLETE pays out 90.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pinnacle West Capital has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years and ALLETE has increased its dividend for 14 consecutive years. ALLETE is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Summary

ALLETE beats Pinnacle West Capital on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ALE vs. The Competition

MetricALLETEElectric & other services combined IndustryUtilities SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$3.72B$20.91B$12.21B$19.89B
Dividend Yield4.38%3.45%4.04%3.54%
P/E Ratio20.6320.25101.0742.58
Price / Sales2.372.2831.5418.13
Price / Cash7.398.6918.3217.85
Price / Book1.091.832.335.59
Net Income$247.10M$896.09M$610.50M$985.39M
7 Day Performance-0.56%1.51%0.31%-0.19%
1 Month Performance-0.03%-4.90%-0.06%0.14%
1 Year Performance15.53%7.21%9.02%23.70%

ALLETE Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ALE
ALLETE
4.0944 of 5 stars
$64.36
-0.3%
$62.00
-3.7%
+15.5%$3.73B$1.88B20.631,560Positive News
PNW
Pinnacle West Capital
3.6517 of 5 stars
$91.79
+0.9%
$82.04
-10.6%
+28.0%$10.44B$5.02B17.386,133Analyst Downgrade
OGE
OGE Energy
4.116 of 5 stars
$43.11
-0.1%
$39.40
-8.6%
+24.3%$8.67B$2.67B22.342,329Positive News
IDA
IDACORP
4.7833 of 5 stars
$117.96
+0.2%
$108.83
-7.7%
+21.7%$6.27B$1.77B21.892,112
POR
Portland General Electric
3.7693 of 5 stars
$46.88
-0.1%
$48.86
+4.2%
+14.8%$4.95B$2.92B13.992,842Positive News
MGEE
MGE Energy
3.2758 of 5 stars
$103.89
-0.6%
$74.00
-28.8%
+41.4%$3.78B$690.43M31.77700News Coverage
Positive News
OTTR
Otter Tail
3.0302 of 5 stars
$79.65
-0.4%
N/A+3.3%$3.35B$1.35B11.002,655Positive News
HE
Hawaiian Electric Industries
1.3603 of 5 stars
$10.48
-0.9%
$10.75
+2.6%
-22.3%$1.82B$3.68B0.003,706Analyst Forecast
UTL
Unitil
2.7663 of 5 stars
$59.27
+0.9%
N/A+20.2%$951.12M$557.10M20.23536
ARRY
Array Technologies
4.1791 of 5 stars
$6.37
+4.4%
$11.57
+81.7%
-59.7%$926.85M$982.19M-6.571,028
NEE
NextEra Energy
4.9047 of 5 stars
$76.87
-0.3%
$86.54
+12.6%
+34.0%$158.51B$28.11B22.7416,800Positive News

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This page (NYSE:ALE) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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