HE vs. PNM, OTTR, POR, KEN, EDN, TAC, PAM, BKH, ELP, and ENIC
Should you be buying Hawaiian Electric Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hawaiian Electric Industries include PNM Resources (PNM), Otter Tail (OTTR), Portland General Electric (POR), Kenon (KEN), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), TransAlta (TAC), Pampa Energía (PAM), Black Hills (BKH), Companhia Paranaense de Energia - COPEL (ELP), and Enel Chile (ENIC). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Hawaiian Electric Industries (NYSE:HE) and PNM Resources (NYSE:PNM) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
59.9% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of PNM Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of PNM Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Hawaiian Electric Industries presently has a consensus price target of $11.63, indicating a potential upside of 11.73%. PNM Resources has a consensus price target of $44.75, indicating a potential upside of 20.55%. Given PNM Resources' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PNM Resources is more favorable than Hawaiian Electric Industries.
Hawaiian Electric Industries has a net margin of 5.16% compared to PNM Resources' net margin of 4.38%. PNM Resources' return on equity of 9.91% beat Hawaiian Electric Industries' return on equity.
Hawaiian Electric Industries has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PNM Resources has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PNM Resources had 8 more articles in the media than Hawaiian Electric Industries. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for PNM Resources and 5 mentions for Hawaiian Electric Industries. PNM Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Hawaiian Electric Industries' score of 0.14 indicating that PNM Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hawaiian Electric Industries has higher revenue and earnings than PNM Resources. Hawaiian Electric Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PNM Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PNM Resources received 40 more outperform votes than Hawaiian Electric Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.63% of users gave PNM Resources an outperform vote while only 50.28% of users gave Hawaiian Electric Industries an outperform vote.
Summary
PNM Resources beats Hawaiian Electric Industries on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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