EXC vs. DUK, PCG, PEG, ED, XEL, WEC, AEE, CMS, LNT, and NI
Should you be buying Exelon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Exelon include Duke Energy (DUK), PG&E (PCG), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), Xcel Energy (XEL), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), Alliant Energy (LNT), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "electric & other services combined" industry.
Exelon (NASDAQ:EXC) and Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Exelon presently has a consensus price target of $39.08, indicating a potential upside of 4.08%. Duke Energy has a consensus price target of $102.46, indicating a potential downside of 1.07%. Given Exelon's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Exelon is more favorable than Duke Energy.
Exelon pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Duke Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Exelon pays out 65.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. Exelon is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Duke Energy received 538 more outperform votes than Exelon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.67% of users gave Duke Energy an outperform vote while only 45.19% of users gave Exelon an outperform vote.
Duke Energy has a net margin of 10.78% compared to Exelon's net margin of 10.44%. Exelon's return on equity of 9.27% beat Duke Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Duke Energy had 13 more articles in the media than Exelon. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Duke Energy and 17 mentions for Exelon. Duke Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Exelon's score of 0.78 indicating that Duke Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Duke Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Exelon. Exelon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Duke Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.9% of Exelon shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Duke Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Exelon shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Duke Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Exelon has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duke Energy has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Duke Energy beats Exelon on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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