PCG vs. PEG, ED, WEC, AEE, CMS, EXC, XEL, DUK, LNT, and NGG
Should you be buying PG&E stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PG&E include Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), Exelon (EXC), Xcel Energy (XEL), Duke Energy (DUK), Alliant Energy (LNT), and National Grid (NGG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE:PEG) and PG&E (NYSE:PCG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Public Service Enterprise Group presently has a consensus target price of $67.15, indicating a potential downside of 9.91%. PG&E has a consensus target price of $19.44, indicating a potential upside of 4.54%. Given Public Service Enterprise Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PG&E is more favorable than Public Service Enterprise Group.
73.3% of Public Service Enterprise Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of PG&E shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Public Service Enterprise Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PG&E shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Public Service Enterprise Group pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Public Service Enterprise Group pays out 66.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Public Service Enterprise Group has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Public Service Enterprise Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Public Service Enterprise Group has a net margin of 17.65% compared to Public Service Enterprise Group's net margin of 10.05%. Public Service Enterprise Group's return on equity of 11.32% beat PG&E's return on equity.
PG&E received 348 more outperform votes than Public Service Enterprise Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.26% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 56.69% of users gave Public Service Enterprise Group an outperform vote.
Public Service Enterprise Group has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PG&E has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PG&E had 15 more articles in the media than Public Service Enterprise Group. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for PG&E and 9 mentions for Public Service Enterprise Group. PG&E's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Public Service Enterprise Group's score of 0.46 indicating that Public Service Enterprise Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Public Service Enterprise Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PG&E. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Public Service Enterprise Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Public Service Enterprise Group beats PG&E on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PCG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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