DUK vs. NEE, SO, EIX, ETR, FE, PPL, ES, PNW, OGE, and IDA
Should you be buying Duke Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Duke Energy include NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), FirstEnergy (FE), PPL (PPL), Eversource Energy (ES), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), and IDACORP (IDA). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) and NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
NextEra Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Duke Energy. NextEra Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Duke Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Duke Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. NextEra Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Duke Energy pays out 103.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NextEra Energy pays out 56.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
NextEra Energy has a net margin of 27.62% compared to Duke Energy's net margin of 10.78%. NextEra Energy's return on equity of 11.72% beat Duke Energy's return on equity.
Duke Energy has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextEra Energy has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Duke Energy presently has a consensus target price of $102.46, suggesting a potential downside of 1.07%. NextEra Energy has a consensus target price of $72.93, suggesting a potential downside of 8.86%. Given Duke Energy's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Duke Energy is more favorable than NextEra Energy.
In the previous week, Duke Energy had 6 more articles in the media than NextEra Energy. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Duke Energy and 25 mentions for NextEra Energy. NextEra Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Duke Energy's score of 0.81 indicating that NextEra Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NextEra Energy received 160 more outperform votes than Duke Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.29% of users gave NextEra Energy an outperform vote while only 53.67% of users gave Duke Energy an outperform vote.
65.3% of Duke Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.7% of NextEra Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Duke Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of NextEra Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
NextEra Energy beats Duke Energy on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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