SRE vs. PCG, D, 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 PG&E (PCG), Dominion Energy (D), 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 (NYSE:SRE) and PG&E (NYSE:PCG) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Sempra has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PG&E has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 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 55.0% 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.
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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term 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. PG&E's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Sempra's score of 0.50 indicating that PG&E is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Sempra has a net margin of 20.99% compared to PG&E's net margin of 10.05%. PG&E's return on equity of 11.32% beat Sempra's return on equity.
Sempra currently has a consensus price target of $82.64, indicating a potential upside of 7.28%. PG&E has a consensus price target of $19.75, indicating a potential upside of 6.53%. Given Sempra's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sempra is more favorable than PG&E.
Summary
Sempra beats PG&E on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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