BKH vs. OTTR, ENIC, ELP, PNM, AQN, POR, IDA, PAM, TAC, and KEN Should you be buying Black Hills stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Black Hills include Otter Tail (OTTR), Enel Chile (ENIC), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), PNM Resources (PNM), Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Portland General Electric (POR), IDACORP (IDA), Pampa Energía (PAM), TransAlta (TAC), and Kenon (KEN). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Black Hills (NYSE:BKH ) and Otter Tail (NASDAQ:OTTR ) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
Otter Tail has a net margin of 22.55% compared to Black Hills' net margin of 12.92%. Otter Tail's return on equity of 21.58% beat Black Hills' return on equity.
Black Hills presently has a consensus target price of $54.80, suggesting a potential downside of 3.49%. Given Black Hills' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Black Hills is more favorable than Otter Tail.
86.7% of Black Hills shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.3% of Otter Tail shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Black Hills shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Otter Tail shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Otter Tail has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Black Hills. Otter Tail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Black Hills, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Black Hills had 8 more articles in the media than Otter Tail. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Black Hills and 2 mentions for Otter Tail. Black Hills' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Otter Tail's score of 0.04 indicating that Black Hills is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Black Hills pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Otter Tail pays an annual dividend of $1.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Black Hills pays out 64.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Otter Tail pays out 25.7% 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.
Black Hills received 122 more outperform votes than Otter Tail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.10% of users gave Otter Tail an outperform vote while only 59.42% of users gave Black Hills an outperform vote.
Black Hills has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Otter Tail has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary Black Hills and Otter Tail tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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