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Cleco (CNL) Competitors

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CNL vs. HE, UTL, ARRY, NEE, SO, DUK, ETR, PPL, FE, and EIX

Should you be buying Cleco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cleco include Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Unitil (UTL), Array Technologies (ARRY), NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), Duke Energy (DUK), Entergy (ETR), PPL (PPL), FirstEnergy (FE), and Edison International (EIX). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.

Cleco vs.

Cleco (NYSE:CNL) and Hawaiian Electric Industries (NYSE:HE) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and valuation.

Hawaiian Electric Industries received 246 more outperform votes than Cleco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.94% of users gave Cleco an outperform vote while only 48.46% of users gave Hawaiian Electric Industries an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ClecoOutperform Votes
117
60.94%
Underperform Votes
75
39.06%
Hawaiian Electric IndustriesOutperform Votes
363
48.46%
Underperform Votes
386
51.54%

In the previous week, Hawaiian Electric Industries had 8 more articles in the media than Cleco. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Hawaiian Electric Industries and 0 mentions for Cleco. Hawaiian Electric Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Cleco's score of 0.00 indicating that Hawaiian Electric Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Cleco Neutral
Hawaiian Electric Industries Positive

Hawaiian Electric Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Cleco. Cleco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hawaiian Electric Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
ClecoN/AN/A-$19.13M-$0.34-27.13
Hawaiian Electric Industries$3.22B0.56$201.13M-$12.67-0.82

Cleco presently has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential downside of 13.29%. Hawaiian Electric Industries has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.11%. Given Hawaiian Electric Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hawaiian Electric Industries is more favorable than Cleco.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cleco
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.33
Hawaiian Electric Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

Cleco has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Hawaiian Electric Industries' net margin of -35.38%. Hawaiian Electric Industries' return on equity of 11.12% beat Cleco's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ClecoN/A -129.04% -104.12%
Hawaiian Electric Industries -35.38%11.12%1.19%

59.9% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Cleco shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are held 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.

Summary

Hawaiian Electric Industries beats Cleco on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CNL vs. The Competition

MetricClecoGold & silver ores IndustryMaterials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$462.99M$4.73B$3.03B$18.88B
Dividend YieldN/A2.04%5.18%4.04%
P/E Ratio-28.1225.6374.7632.68
Price / SalesN/A10.0223,032,091,497,809,700.0028.56
Price / CashN/A21.1124.3217.53
Price / BookN/A3.265.174.46
Net Income-$19.13M$36.57M$155.25M$1.02B

Cleco Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CNL
Cleco
N/A$9.23
+108.1%
$8.00
-13.3%
N/A$462.99MN/A-28.12N/A
HE
Hawaiian Electric Industries
2.9358 of 5 stars
$10.28
-1.6%
$12.00
+16.7%
+3.2%$1.77B$3.22B-0.873,760Short Interest ↓
Positive News
UTL
Unitil
2.8555 of 5 stars
$58.52
-0.3%
$55.00
-6.0%
+17.9%$950.72M$494.80M19.97520Upcoming Earnings
ARRY
Array Technologies
3.3246 of 5 stars
$4.18
-3.5%
$9.48
+126.7%
-57.3%$637.50M$915.81M-4.31470Upcoming Earnings
Options Volume
NEE
NextEra Energy
4.9158 of 5 stars
$64.74
-2.4%
$85.15
+31.5%
+0.3%$133.27B$24.75B19.2115,300Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Positive News
SO
Southern
3.8637 of 5 stars
$90.21
-1.7%
$92.00
+2.0%
+24.0%$99.25B$26.72B22.5027,700Upcoming Earnings
Positive News
DUK
Duke Energy
4.3212 of 5 stars
$120.20
-1.3%
$123.87
+3.1%
+23.5%$93.40B$30.36B21.0527,900Upcoming Earnings
ETR
Entergy
4.2082 of 5 stars
$80.50
-3.3%
$85.25
+5.9%
+59.8%$34.68B$11.88B33.0611,700Earnings Report
Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Down
PPL
PPL
3.1782 of 5 stars
$35.38
-1.0%
$35.70
+0.9%
+35.1%$26.15B$8.46B29.246,530Upcoming Earnings
High Trading Volume
FE
FirstEnergy
3.3487 of 5 stars
$41.78
-0.6%
$45.17
+8.1%
+12.1%$24.09B$13.47B26.9612,300Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
EIX
Edison International
4.9802 of 5 stars
$55.82
-2.7%
$76.75
+37.5%
-16.8%$21.49B$17.60B16.3713,000Positive News

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This page (NYSE:CNL) was last updated on 4/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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