ES vs. DUK, EIX, ETR, FE, PPL, PNW, OGE, IDA, POR, and OTTR
Should you be buying Eversource Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eversource Energy include Duke Energy (DUK), Edison International (EIX), Entergy (ETR), FirstEnergy (FE), PPL (PPL), Pinnacle West Capital (PNW), OGE Energy (OGE), IDACORP (IDA), Portland General Electric (POR), and Otter Tail (OTTR). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
Eversource Energy (NYSE:ES) and Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Eversource Energy pays an annual dividend of $2.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Duke Energy pays an annual dividend of $4.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Eversource Energy pays out -242.4% 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. Eversource Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Eversource Energy presently has a consensus price target of $66.07, suggesting a potential upside of 11.55%. Duke Energy has a consensus price target of $102.46, suggesting a potential downside of 1.07%. Given Eversource Energy's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Eversource Energy is more favorable than Duke Energy.
Duke Energy received 138 more outperform votes than Eversource Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.67% of users gave Duke Energy an outperform vote while only 47.43% of users gave Eversource Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Duke Energy had 17 more articles in the media than Eversource Energy. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Duke Energy and 13 mentions for Eversource Energy. Duke Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Eversource Energy's score of 0.80 indicating that Duke Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Duke Energy has a net margin of 10.78% compared to Eversource Energy's net margin of -3.60%. Eversource Energy's return on equity of 10.32% beat Duke Energy's return on equity.
Duke Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Eversource Energy. Eversource Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Duke Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
80.0% of Eversource Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.3% of Duke Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Eversource Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Duke Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Eversource Energy has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duke Energy has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Duke Energy beats Eversource Energy on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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