ENIC vs. AQN, POR, ELP, BKH, OTTR, IDA, PNM, PAM, TAC, and OGE
Should you be buying Enel Chile stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enel Chile include Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN), Portland General Electric (POR), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), Black Hills (BKH), Otter Tail (OTTR), IDACORP (IDA), PNM Resources (PNM), Pampa Energía (PAM), TransAlta (TAC), and OGE Energy (OGE). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Enel Chile (NYSE:ENIC) and Algonquin Power & Utilities (NYSE:AQN) are both mid-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Algonquin Power & Utilities has a consensus target price of $7.44, suggesting a potential upside of 11.95%. Given Algonquin Power & Utilities' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Algonquin Power & Utilities is more favorable than Enel Chile.
Enel Chile has higher revenue and earnings than Algonquin Power & Utilities. Algonquin Power & Utilities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Enel Chile, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Algonquin Power & Utilities received 85 more outperform votes than Enel Chile when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.37% of users gave Enel Chile an outperform vote while only 55.46% of users gave Algonquin Power & Utilities an outperform vote.
3.2% of Enel Chile shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of Algonquin Power & Utilities shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Algonquin Power & Utilities shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Enel Chile pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Algonquin Power & Utilities pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Enel Chile pays out 44.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Algonquin Power & Utilities pays out -87.8% 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.
Enel Chile has a net margin of 15.66% compared to Algonquin Power & Utilities' net margin of -12.44%. Enel Chile's return on equity of 51.15% beat Algonquin Power & Utilities' return on equity.
Enel Chile has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Algonquin Power & Utilities has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Algonquin Power & Utilities had 16 more articles in the media than Enel Chile. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Algonquin Power & Utilities and 2 mentions for Enel Chile. Enel Chile's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Algonquin Power & Utilities' score of -0.05 indicating that Enel Chile is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Enel Chile beats Algonquin Power & Utilities on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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