Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP) Competitors

Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (NYSE:ELP) and Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (NYSE:EBR) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.

Is ELP or EBR a better dividend stock?

Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays an annual dividend of $0.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás pays out 23.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in ELP or EBR?

3.8% of Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.6% of Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás shares are held by institutional investors. 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.

Which has more risk and volatility, ELP or EBR?

Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ELP or EBR?

Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL received 65 more outperform votes than Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.76% of users gave Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL an outperform vote while only 58.70% of users gave Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL	Outperform Votes 227 66.76%	Underperform Votes 113 33.24%
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	Outperform Votes 162 58.70%	Underperform Votes 114 41.30%

Do analysts prefer ELP or EBR?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	4.00

Is ELP or EBR more profitable?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has a net margin of 26.50% compared to Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL's net margin of 14.20%. Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL's return on equity of 11.88% beat Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL	14.20%	11.88%	5.26%
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	26.50%	9.00%	3.82%

Does the media refer more to ELP or EBR?

In the previous week, Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás had 1 more articles in the media than Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás and 0 mentions for Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás' average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL's score of 0.28 indicating that Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL	Neutral
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	Very Positive

Which has better valuation and earnings, ELP or EBR?

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás has higher revenue and earnings than Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL. Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL	$22.65B	0.19	$452.44M	$0.17	45.38
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás	$40.18B	0.41	$977.82M	$0.82	8.95

Summary

Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás beats Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.