D vs. PCG, SRE, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CNP, CMS, and NI
Should you be buying Dominion Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dominion Energy include PG&E (PCG), Sempra (SRE), 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.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG) and Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
In the previous week, PG&E had 1 more articles in the media than Dominion Energy. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for PG&E and 12 mentions for Dominion Energy. PG&E's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Dominion Energy's score of 0.76 indicating that Dominion Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Dominion Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.67 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dominion Energy pays out 137.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Dominion Energy has a net margin of 11.57% compared to Dominion Energy's net margin of 10.05%. Dominion Energy's return on equity of 11.32% beat PG&E's return on equity.
PG&E currently has a consensus price target of $19.75, suggesting a potential upside of 6.50%. Dominion Energy has a consensus price target of $51.73, suggesting a potential downside of 4.07%. Given Dominion Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe PG&E is more favorable than Dominion Energy.
78.6% of PG&E shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.0% of Dominion Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of PG&E shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Dominion Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
PG&E received 287 more outperform votes than Dominion Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.22% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 52.71% of users gave Dominion Energy an outperform vote.
PG&E has higher revenue and earnings than Dominion Energy. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dominion Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PG&E has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dominion Energy has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PG&E beats Dominion Energy on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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