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Korea Electric Power (KEP) Competitors

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$7.16 +0.16 (+2.21%)
Closing price 01/17/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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KEP vs. CQP, FTS, WES, LNT, EVRG, AGR, EBR, DTM, SBS, and KNTK

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), Western Midstream Partners (WES), Alliant Energy (LNT), Evergy (EVRG), Avangrid (AGR), Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR), DT Midstream (DTM), Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP (SBS), and Kinetik (KNTK). 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 superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and profitability.

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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Korea Electric Power received 237 more outperform votes than Cheniere Energy Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.63% 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
2
100.00%
Korea Electric PowerOutperform Votes
237
55.63%
Underperform Votes
189
44.37%

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$9.66B3.11$4.25B$4.6313.41
Korea Electric Power$67.58BN/A-$3.86B$2.163.31

Cheniere Energy Partners has a net margin of 31.28% 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 Partners31.28% -328.60% 13.93%
Korea Electric Power 4.03%9.64%1.53%

In the previous week, Cheniere Energy Partners had 6 more articles in the media than Korea Electric Power. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Cheniere Energy Partners and 1 mentions for Korea Electric Power. Cheniere Energy Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Korea Electric Power's score of -0.33 indicating that Cheniere Energy Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Cheniere Energy Partners currently has a consensus target price of $51.67, indicating a potential downside of 16.78%. Given Cheniere Energy Partners' higher probable upside, analysts clearly 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
3 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 beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Korea Electric Power has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Cheniere Energy Partners beats Korea Electric Power on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KEP vs. The Competition

MetricKorea Electric PowerElectric services IndustryUtilities SectorNYSE Exchange
Market CapN/A$14.06B$14.08B$19.88B
Dividend YieldN/A4.54%4.72%3.61%
P/E Ratio3.3112.1990.9734.99
Price / SalesN/A9,293.3625.2817.08
Price / Cash1.379.5019.3017.54
Price / Book0.312.682.325.78
Net Income-$3.86B$675.56M$635.38M$1.01B
7 Day Performance3.55%2.43%1.48%2.23%
1 Month Performance0.21%3.78%0.55%4.73%
1 Year Performance6.47%37.26%4.75%18.81%

Korea Electric Power Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KEP
Korea Electric Power
0.347 of 5 stars
$7.16
+2.2%
N/A+6.5%$0.00$67.58B3.3148,696Short Interest ↑
Negative News
CQP
Cheniere Energy Partners
0.9596 of 5 stars
$56.26
+0.2%
$50.50
-10.2%
N/A$27.23B$8.93B12.151,605
FTS
Fortis
2.9753 of 5 stars
$40.71
-0.2%
N/A+3.7%$20.33B$11.44B17.119,600Short Interest ↓
WES
Western Midstream Partners
1.0283 of 5 stars
$40.01
+0.8%
$37.88
-5.3%
+49.4%$15.23B$3.53B10.211,377
LNT
Alliant Energy
3.8739 of 5 stars
$56.99
+0.6%
$63.39
+11.2%
+23.9%$14.62B$3.97B22.093,281Dividend Increase
EVRG
Evergy
2.7882 of 5 stars
$60.68
+1.3%
$64.06
+5.6%
+25.2%$13.95B$5.78B16.404,658Positive News
AGR
Avangrid
1.3802 of 5 stars
$36.02
flat
$35.00
-2.8%
+16.2%$13.94B$8.71B12.387,580
EBR
Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás
0.2275 of 5 stars
$5.60
flat
N/A-31.9%$12.89B$38.08B0.008,328Short Interest ↑
Negative News
DTM
DT Midstream
2.8384 of 5 stars
$105.20
+1.7%
$95.88
-8.9%
+109.4%$10.22B$922M25.60360
SBS
Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP
1.9141 of 5 stars
$14.46
+1.0%
N/A-1.1%$9.88B$26.17B5.6911,170Positive News
KNTK
Kinetik
2.409 of 5 stars
$60.62
+0.3%
$56.75
-6.4%
+101.5%$9.55B$1.45B22.37200

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