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$10.66 -0.03 (-0.28%)
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HE vs. IDA, POR, ALE, OTTR, MGEE, ARRY, UTL, NEE, SO, and DUK

Should you be buying Hawaiian Electric Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hawaiian Electric Industries include IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), Allete (ALE), Otter Tail (OTTR), MGE Energy (MGEE), Array Technologies (ARRY), Unitil (UTL), NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), and Duke Energy (DUK). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.

Hawaiian Electric Industries vs. Its Competitors

Hawaiian Electric Industries (NYSE:HE) and IDACORP (NYSE:IDA) are both utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.

Hawaiian Electric Industries has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDACORP has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Hawaiian Electric Industries currently has a consensus price target of $11.94, suggesting a potential upside of 11.98%. IDACORP has a consensus price target of $122.86, suggesting a potential upside of 3.20%. Given Hawaiian Electric Industries' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Hawaiian Electric Industries is more favorable than IDACORP.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Hawaiian Electric Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25
IDACORP
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.57

59.9% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of IDACORP shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of IDACORP shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, IDACORP had 5 more articles in the media than Hawaiian Electric Industries. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for IDACORP and 7 mentions for Hawaiian Electric Industries. IDACORP's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Hawaiian Electric Industries' score of 0.07 indicating that IDACORP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Hawaiian Electric Industries
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
IDACORP
10 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Hawaiian Electric Industries$3.22B0.57-$1.42B-$12.90-0.83
IDACORP$1.83B3.52$289.17M$5.6321.15

IDACORP has a net margin of 16.61% compared to Hawaiian Electric Industries' net margin of -42.60%. Hawaiian Electric Industries' return on equity of 12.59% beat IDACORP's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Hawaiian Electric Industries-42.60% 12.59% 1.35%
IDACORP 16.61%9.13%3.28%

Summary

IDACORP beats Hawaiian Electric Industries on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HE and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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HE vs. The Competition

MetricHawaiian Electric IndustriesUTIL IndustryUtilities SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.84B$24.53B$15.73B$20.80B
Dividend YieldN/A3.76%5.64%3.67%
P/E Ratio-0.8333.7319.9527.51
Price / Sales0.574.10198.0985.57
Price / Cash4.308.7418.9321.88
Price / Book1.242.202.134.66
Net Income-$1.42B$1.43B$747.76M$994.58M
7 Day Performance0.05%-0.41%14.53%-0.67%
1 Month Performance3.95%2.68%31.35%5.43%
1 Year Performance-16.78%17.57%208.05%9.19%

Hawaiian Electric Industries Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HE
Hawaiian Electric Industries
1.5402 of 5 stars
$10.66
-0.3%
$11.94
+12.0%
-12.0%$1.84B$3.22B-0.832,602
IDA
IDACORP
4.1322 of 5 stars
$118.27
+0.6%
$122.86
+3.9%
+25.2%$6.39B$1.81B21.012,141News Coverage
Positive News
POR
Portland General Electric
3.4074 of 5 stars
$41.23
+0.3%
$45.60
+10.6%
-11.6%$4.51B$3.44B14.522,915
ALE
Allete
3.3111 of 5 stars
$66.45
+0.6%
N/A+3.2%$3.85B$1.53B20.831,616News Coverage
High Trading Volume
OTTR
Otter Tail
1.6113 of 5 stars
$78.75
-0.2%
$83.00
+5.4%
-19.3%$3.30B$1.32B11.222,133
MGEE
MGE Energy
3.3321 of 5 stars
$86.58
+0.4%
$74.00
-14.5%
+4.0%$3.16B$704.58M24.46700News Coverage
Positive News
ARRY
Array Technologies
3.6308 of 5 stars
$7.41
-0.8%
$8.87
+19.7%
-40.0%$1.13B$1.06B-4.011,021
UTL
Unitil
3.1971 of 5 stars
$51.83
+1.1%
$55.00
+6.1%
-10.5%$842.76M$486.90M17.69520Positive News
NEE
NextEra Energy
4.702 of 5 stars
$75.15
+1.0%
$84.73
+12.7%
+4.0%$154.70B$25.27B28.159,300Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
SO
Southern
4.0545 of 5 stars
$92.74
+0.1%
$92.93
+0.2%
+15.0%$101.93B$27.85B22.1328,600Positive News
Analyst Forecast
DUK
Duke Energy
4.5853 of 5 stars
$117.96
+0.4%
$126.88
+7.6%
+10.6%$91.69B$30.36B19.5626,413Positive News
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast

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This page (NYSE:HE) was last updated on 7/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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