PPL vs. ES, FE, ETR, EIX, PNW, OGE, FTS, DTE, CNP, and EBR
Should you be buying PPL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PPL include Eversource Energy (ES), FirstEnergy (FE), Entergy (ETR), Edison International (EIX), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), Fortis (FTS), DTE Energy (DTE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), and Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A. - Eletrobrás (EBR). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
PPL (NYSE:PPL) and Eversource Energy (NYSE:ES) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
PPL has a net margin of 9.29% compared to Eversource Energy's net margin of -3.60%. Eversource Energy's return on equity of 10.32% beat PPL's return on equity.
PPL has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Eversource Energy. Eversource Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PPL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PPL presently has a consensus price target of $32.27, indicating a potential upside of 9.07%. Eversource Energy has a consensus price target of $65.86, indicating a potential upside of 8.03%. Given PPL's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe PPL is more favorable than Eversource Energy.
PPL received 115 more outperform votes than Eversource Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.50% of users gave PPL an outperform vote while only 47.48% of users gave Eversource Energy an outperform vote.
77.0% of PPL shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.0% of Eversource Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of PPL shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Eversource Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Eversource Energy had 6 more articles in the media than PPL. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Eversource Energy and 3 mentions for PPL. Eversource Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat PPL's score of 0.33 indicating that Eversource Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PPL pays an annual dividend of $1.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Eversource Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. PPL pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eversource Energy pays out -242.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Eversource Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
PPL has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eversource Energy has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PPL beats Eversource Energy on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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