LNT vs. AVA, PEG, EXC, ED, XEL, WEC, AEE, CMS, NI, and EVRG
Should you be buying Alliant Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliant Energy include Avista (AVA), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Exelon (EXC), Consolidated Edison (ED), Xcel Energy (XEL), WEC Energy Group (WEC), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), NiSource (NI), and Evergy (EVRG). These companies are all part of the "electric & other services combined" industry.
Avista (NYSE:AVA) and Alliant Energy (NASDAQ:LNT) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
Avista pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Alliant Energy pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Avista pays out 78.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alliant Energy pays out 69.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Avista has raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years and Alliant Energy has raised its dividend for 21 consecutive years. Avista is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Avista currently has a consensus price target of $35.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.35%. Alliant Energy has a consensus price target of $51.38, indicating a potential downside of 0.22%. Given Avista's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alliant Energy is more favorable than Avista.
In the previous week, Alliant Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Avista. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Alliant Energy and 7 mentions for Avista. Avista's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Alliant Energy's score of 0.69 indicating that Alliant Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Avista has a beta of 0.48, suggesting that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliant Energy has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alliant Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Avista. Avista is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alliant Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alliant Energy has a net margin of 17.53% compared to Alliant Energy's net margin of 9.96%. Avista's return on equity of 10.57% beat Alliant Energy's return on equity.
85.2% of Avista shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Alliant Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Avista shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Alliant Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Avista received 212 more outperform votes than Alliant Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.76% of users gave Avista an outperform vote while only 34.33% of users gave Alliant Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Alliant Energy beats Avista on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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