DUK vs. PCG, EXC, PEG, ED, XEL, WEC, AEE, SO, NGG, and SRE
Should you be buying Duke Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Duke Energy include PG&E (PCG), Exelon (EXC), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), Xcel Energy (XEL), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), Southern (SO), National Grid (NGG), and Sempra (SRE). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) and PG&E (NYSE:PCG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
Duke Energy has a net margin of 10.78% compared to PG&E's net margin of 10.05%. PG&E's return on equity of 11.32% beat Duke Energy's return on equity.
65.3% of Duke Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of PG&E shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Duke Energy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PG&E shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
PG&E received 264 more outperform votes than Duke Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.26% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 53.64% of users gave Duke Energy an outperform vote.
Duke Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Duke Energy pays out 103.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Duke Energy has higher revenue and earnings than PG&E. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Duke Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Duke Energy has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PG&E has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Duke Energy had 8 more articles in the media than PG&E. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Duke Energy and 21 mentions for PG&E. Duke Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat PG&E's score of 0.72 indicating that Duke Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Duke Energy presently has a consensus price target of $101.31, suggesting a potential downside of 2.49%. PG&E has a consensus price target of $19.44, suggesting a potential upside of 4.54%. Given PG&E's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PG&E is more favorable than Duke Energy.
Summary
Duke Energy beats PG&E on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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