PNW vs. ETR, PPL, FE, ES, EIX, OGE, IDA, POR, ALE, and MGEE
Should you be buying Pinnacle West Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pinnacle West Capital include Entergy (ETR), PPL (PPL), FirstEnergy (FE), Eversource Energy (ES), Edison International (EIX), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), ALLETE (ALE), and MGE Energy (MGEE). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
Pinnacle West Capital vs.
Entergy (NYSE:ETR) and Pinnacle West Capital (NYSE:PNW) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Pinnacle West Capital has a net margin of 12.26% compared to Entergy's net margin of 8.90%. Entergy's return on equity of 10.68% beat Pinnacle West Capital's return on equity.
Entergy pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Pinnacle West Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Entergy pays out 98.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pinnacle West Capital pays out 67.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pinnacle West Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
88.1% of Entergy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Entergy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Pinnacle West Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Entergy has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pinnacle West Capital has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Entergy has higher revenue and earnings than Pinnacle West Capital. Pinnacle West Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Entergy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Entergy presently has a consensus price target of $82.14, suggesting a potential downside of 3.30%. Pinnacle West Capital has a consensus price target of $85.21, suggesting a potential downside of 7.00%. Given Entergy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Entergy is more favorable than Pinnacle West Capital.
Entergy received 75 more outperform votes than Pinnacle West Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 49.63% of users gave Entergy an outperform vote while only 41.76% of users gave Pinnacle West Capital an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Entergy had 56 more articles in the media than Pinnacle West Capital. MarketBeat recorded 64 mentions for Entergy and 8 mentions for Pinnacle West Capital. Pinnacle West Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Entergy's score of 1.01 indicating that Pinnacle West Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Entergy beats Pinnacle West Capital on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:PNW) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
