SRE vs. D, PCG, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CNP, CMS, and NI
Should you be buying Sempra stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sempra include Dominion Energy (D), PG&E (PCG), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), CMS Energy (CMS), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
Sempra vs.
Sempra (NYSE:SRE) and Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Dominion Energy received 84 more outperform votes than Sempra when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.47% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote while only 52.23% of users gave Dominion Energy an outperform vote.
Sempra currently has a consensus price target of $81.58, indicating a potential upside of 17.72%. Dominion Energy has a consensus price target of $57.58, indicating a potential upside of 8.94%. Given Sempra's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Sempra is more favorable than Dominion Energy.
Sempra has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dominion Energy has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sempra has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Dominion Energy. Sempra is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dominion Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sempra has a net margin of 22.63% compared to Dominion Energy's net margin of 16.22%. Dominion Energy's return on equity of 8.99% beat Sempra's return on equity.
In the previous week, Dominion Energy had 17 more articles in the media than Sempra. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Dominion Energy and 23 mentions for Sempra. Sempra's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Dominion Energy's score of 0.97 indicating that Sempra is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Dominion Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Sempra pays out 58.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dominion Energy pays out 98.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sempra has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years.
89.7% of Sempra shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.0% of Dominion Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Sempra shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Dominion Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Sempra beats Dominion Energy on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SRE) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
