IDACORP (IDA) Competitors

FirstEnergy (NYSE:FE) and IDACORP (NYSE:IDA) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.

Is FE or IDA a better dividend stock?

FirstEnergy pays an annual dividend of $1.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. IDACORP pays an annual dividend of $3.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. FirstEnergy pays out 104.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. IDACORP pays out 62.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IDACORP has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years.

Which has better valuation & earnings, FE or IDA?

FirstEnergy has higher revenue and earnings than IDACORP. IDACORP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstEnergy, 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
FirstEnergy	$13.47B	1.67	$1.10B	$1.70	22.96
IDACORP	$1.83B	3.37	$261.20M	$5.48	20.84

Do analysts rate FE or IDA?

FirstEnergy currently has a consensus target price of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 15.31%. IDACORP has a consensus target price of $120.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.52%. Given FirstEnergy's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe FirstEnergy is more favorable than IDACORP.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FirstEnergy	1 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33
IDACORP	0 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.43

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in FE or IDA?

89.4% of FirstEnergy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of IDACORP shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of FirstEnergy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of IDACORP shares are owned by company insiders. 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 & volatility, FE or IDA?

FirstEnergy has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IDACORP has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer FE or IDA?

In the previous week, FirstEnergy had 29 more articles in the media than IDACORP. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for FirstEnergy and 11 mentions for IDACORP. IDACORP's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat FirstEnergy's score of 0.59 indicating that IDACORP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FirstEnergy	15 Very Positive mention(s)	4 Positive mention(s)	8 Neutral mention(s)	4 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
IDACORP	4 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor FE or IDA?

FirstEnergy received 400 more outperform votes than IDACORP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.19% of users gave FirstEnergy an outperform vote while only 49.17% of users gave IDACORP an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FirstEnergy	Outperform Votes 608 56.19%	Underperform Votes 474 43.81%
IDACORP	Outperform Votes 208 49.17%	Underperform Votes 215 50.83%

Is FE or IDA more profitable?

IDACORP has a net margin of 15.83% compared to FirstEnergy's net margin of 6.64%. FirstEnergy's return on equity of 11.38% beat IDACORP's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FirstEnergy	6.64%	11.38%	2.93%
IDACORP	15.83%	9.23%	3.32%

Summary

FirstEnergy beats IDACORP on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.