BEP vs. VST, EIX, DTE, ETR, FE, PPL, ES, FTS, CNP, and NRG
Should you be buying Brookfield Renewable Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brookfield Renewable Partners include Vistra (VST), Edison International (EIX), DTE Energy (DTE), Entergy (ETR), FirstEnergy (FE), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), Fortis (FTS), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), and NRG Energy (NRG). These companies are all part of the "electric services" industry.
Brookfield Renewable Partners (NYSE:BEP) and Vistra (NYSE:VST) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Vistra has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Renewable Partners. Brookfield Renewable Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vistra, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookfield Renewable Partners has a net margin of 7.10% compared to Vistra's net margin of 5.66%. Vistra's return on equity of 24.72% beat Brookfield Renewable Partners' return on equity.
Brookfield Renewable Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Vistra pays an annual dividend of $0.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Brookfield Renewable Partners pays out -308.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vistra pays out 52.8% 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. Brookfield Renewable Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brookfield Renewable Partners presently has a consensus price target of $31.08, indicating a potential upside of 16.72%. Vistra has a consensus price target of $87.83, indicating a potential upside of 3.25%. Given Brookfield Renewable Partners' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Brookfield Renewable Partners is more favorable than Vistra.
63.2% of Brookfield Renewable Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.9% of Vistra shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Vistra shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Brookfield Renewable Partners has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vistra has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Renewable Partners received 170 more outperform votes than Vistra when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.51% of users gave Vistra an outperform vote while only 61.83% of users gave Brookfield Renewable Partners an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Vistra had 1 more articles in the media than Brookfield Renewable Partners. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Vistra and 8 mentions for Brookfield Renewable Partners. Vistra's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Brookfield Renewable Partners' score of 1.27 indicating that Vistra is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Vistra beats Brookfield Renewable Partners on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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