CMS vs. SRE, D, PCG, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CNP, and NI
Should you be buying CMS Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CMS Energy include Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), PG&E (PCG), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
CMS Energy vs.
Sempra (NYSE:SRE) and CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
CMS Energy received 75 more outperform votes than Sempra when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.11% of users gave CMS Energy an outperform vote while only 60.50% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote.
Sempra has higher revenue and earnings than CMS Energy. Sempra is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CMS Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sempra currently has a consensus target price of $91.60, indicating a potential upside of 7.47%. CMS Energy has a consensus target price of $71.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.22%. Given Sempra's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sempra is more favorable than CMS Energy.
In the previous week, Sempra and Sempra both had 15 articles in the media. CMS Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Sempra's score of 0.82 indicating that CMS Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
89.7% of Sempra shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of CMS Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Sempra shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of CMS Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Sempra has a net margin of 22.63% compared to CMS Energy's net margin of 14.01%. CMS Energy's return on equity of 12.81% beat Sempra's return on equity.
Sempra has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CMS Energy has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. CMS Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Sempra pays out 54.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CMS Energy pays out 58.9% 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. Sempra has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years.
Summary
Sempra beats CMS Energy on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CMS) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
