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KEP vs. CQP, FTS, LNT, WES, EVRG, EBR, TLN, SBS, DTM, and WTRG

Should you be buying Korea Electric Power stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Korea Electric Power include Cheniere Energy Partners (CQP), Fortis (FTS), Alliant Energy (LNT), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Evergy (EVRG), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), Talen Energy (TLN), Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP (SBS), DT Midstream (DTM), and Essential Utilities (WTRG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.

Korea Electric Power vs.

Cheniere Energy Partners (NYSE:CQP) and Korea Electric Power (NYSE:KEP) are both oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.

Cheniere Energy Partners has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Korea Electric Power has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Cheniere Energy Partners has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Korea Electric Power. Korea Electric Power is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cheniere Energy Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cheniere Energy Partners$8.70B3.47$4.25B$4.2614.63
Korea Electric Power$67.58B0.14-$3.86B$2.163.53

Korea Electric Power received 238 more outperform votes than Cheniere Energy Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.61% of users gave Korea Electric Power an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Cheniere Energy Partners an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Cheniere Energy PartnersOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
3
100.00%
Korea Electric PowerOutperform Votes
238
55.61%
Underperform Votes
190
44.39%

46.6% of Cheniere Energy Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Korea Electric Power shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Cheniere Energy Partners currently has a consensus price target of $51.50, suggesting a potential downside of 17.35%. Given Cheniere Energy Partners' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Cheniere Energy Partners is more favorable than Korea Electric Power.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cheniere Energy Partners
4 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.00
Korea Electric Power
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Cheniere Energy Partners has a net margin of 28.84% compared to Korea Electric Power's net margin of 4.03%. Korea Electric Power's return on equity of 9.64% beat Cheniere Energy Partners' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cheniere Energy Partners28.84% -325.95% 13.71%
Korea Electric Power 4.03%9.64%1.53%

In the previous week, Cheniere Energy Partners had 12 more articles in the media than Korea Electric Power. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Cheniere Energy Partners and 2 mentions for Korea Electric Power. Korea Electric Power's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Cheniere Energy Partners' score of 0.53 indicating that Korea Electric Power is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Cheniere Energy Partners
6 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Korea Electric Power
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Cheniere Energy Partners and Korea Electric Power tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KEP vs. The Competition

MetricKorea Electric PowerElectric services IndustryUtilities SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$9.87B$13.80B$14.35B$20.27B
Dividend YieldN/A4.70%4.69%3.64%
P/E Ratio3.5315.3813.2529.78
Price / Sales0.148,938.7621.6615.49
Price / Cash1.4710.0518.7020.54
Price / Book0.332.291.934.90
Net Income-$3.86B$690.28M$667.05M$1.02B
7 Day Performance3.39%-0.09%0.39%-1.05%
1 Month Performance4.10%1.67%1.55%-1.09%
1 Year Performance-11.97%35.86%6.59%13.70%

Korea Electric Power Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KEP
Korea Electric Power
1.6626 of 5 stars
$7.62
-1.0%
N/A-10.8%$9.87B$67.58B3.5348,696
CQP
Cheniere Energy Partners
0.8786 of 5 stars
$61.62
-1.1%
$51.67
-16.2%
N/A$29.83B$9.66B13.311,605Earnings Report
Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
FTS
Fortis
2.2718 of 5 stars
$44.81
+1.1%
N/A+10.6%$22.37B$8.53B18.839,600Earnings Report
Dividend Cut
Ex-Dividend
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
LNT
Alliant Energy
3.6536 of 5 stars
$61.33
+0.4%
$63.39
+3.4%
+27.9%$15.74B$4.03B23.773,281Earnings Report
News Coverage
Positive News
WES
Western Midstream Partners
1.4957 of 5 stars
$40.57
+0.2%
$37.88
-6.6%
+36.5%$15.44B$3.11B10.351,377
EVRG
Evergy
2.7232 of 5 stars
$66.66
-0.3%
$65.36
-2.0%
+34.5%$15.33B$5.51B18.024,658Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
EBR
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás
0.6601 of 5 stars
$6.59
+4.2%
N/A-25.5%$14.79B$7.44B0.008,328Positive News
Gap Up
TLN
Talen Energy
2.8504 of 5 stars
$241.54
+0.5%
$247.10
+2.3%
+221.6%$12.28B$2.55B12.932,118Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
SBS
Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP
1.9559 of 5 stars
$17.78
+3.9%
N/A+6.3%$12.15B$26.17B7.0011,170Positive News
DTM
DT Midstream
3.6007 of 5 stars
$100.10
-1.3%
$101.56
+1.5%
+73.9%$9.73B$922M24.36360News Coverage
Positive News
WTRG
Essential Utilities
4.8224 of 5 stars
$35.21
-1.7%
$43.00
+22.1%
+0.6%$9.67B$2.05B17.603,258Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
Positive News

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