PCG vs. SRE, D, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, CNP, AEE, CMS, and NI
Should you be buying PG&E stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PG&E include Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
Sempra (NYSE:SRE) and PG&E (NYSE:PCG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Sempra has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PG&E. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sempra, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sempra has a net margin of 20.99% compared to Sempra's net margin of 10.05%. Sempra's return on equity of 11.32% beat PG&E's return on equity.
Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Sempra pays out 54.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PG&E pays out 3.6% 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. Sempra has increased its dividend for 21 consecutive years. Sempra is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, PG&E had 3 more articles in the media than Sempra. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for PG&E and 11 mentions for Sempra. Sempra's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat PG&E's score of 0.50 indicating that PG&E is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sempra has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PG&E has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PG&E received 389 more outperform votes than Sempra when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.22% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 60.13% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote.
89.7% of Sempra shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of PG&E shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Sempra shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of PG&E shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Sempra currently has a consensus target price of $82.64, suggesting a potential upside of 7.28%. PG&E has a consensus target price of $19.75, suggesting a potential upside of 6.53%. Given PG&E's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sempra is more favorable than PG&E.
Summary
Sempra beats PG&E on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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