LNT vs. AVA, PEG, EXC, ED, XEL, WEC, AEE, CMS, NI, and EVRG
Should you be buying Alliant Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliant Energy include Avista (AVA), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Exelon (EXC), Consolidated Edison (ED), Xcel Energy (XEL), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), NiSource (NI), and Evergy (EVRG). These companies are all part of the "electric & other services combined" industry.
Alliant Energy (NASDAQ:LNT) and Avista (NYSE:AVA) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Alliant Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Avista pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Alliant Energy pays out 69.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avista pays out 78.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
79.9% of Alliant Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.2% of Avista shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Alliant Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Avista shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Alliant Energy presently has a consensus target price of $51.38, indicating a potential upside of 2.77%. Avista has a consensus target price of $35.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.20%. Given Alliant Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Alliant Energy is more favorable than Avista.
In the previous week, Alliant Energy had 2 more articles in the media than Avista. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Alliant Energy and 5 mentions for Avista. Alliant Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Avista's score of 1.00 indicating that Alliant Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alliant Energy has a net margin of 17.53% compared to Avista's net margin of 9.96%. Alliant Energy's return on equity of 10.57% beat Avista's return on equity.
Alliant Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Avista. Avista is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alliant Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Avista received 212 more outperform votes than Alliant Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.76% of users gave Avista an outperform vote while only 34.33% of users gave Alliant Energy an outperform vote.
Alliant Energy has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Avista has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alliant Energy beats Avista on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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