NWE vs. EVRG, ALE, AVA, UTL, NOVA, GNE, VIA, ALCE, VVPR, and DUK
Should you be buying NorthWestern Energy Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NorthWestern Energy Group include Evergy (EVRG), ALLETE (ALE), Avista (AVA), Unitil (UTL), Sunnova Energy International (NOVA), Genie Energy (GNE), Via Renewables (VIA), Alternus Clean Energy (ALCE), VivoPower International (VVPR), and Duke Energy (DUK). These companies are all part of the "electric & other services combined" industry.
NorthWestern Energy Group (NYSE:NWE) and Evergy (NYSE:EVRG) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation and dividends.
NorthWestern Energy Group has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Evergy has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
NorthWestern Energy Group pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Evergy pays an annual dividend of $2.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. NorthWestern Energy Group pays out 80.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Evergy pays out 83.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NorthWestern Energy Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Evergy had 66 more articles in the media than NorthWestern Energy Group. MarketBeat recorded 70 mentions for Evergy and 4 mentions for NorthWestern Energy Group. NorthWestern Energy Group's average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat Evergy's score of 0.38 indicating that NorthWestern Energy Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Evergy received 122 more outperform votes than NorthWestern Energy Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.77% of users gave Evergy an outperform vote while only 12.50% of users gave NorthWestern Energy Group an outperform vote.
Evergy has higher revenue and earnings than NorthWestern Energy Group. NorthWestern Energy Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Evergy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NorthWestern Energy Group presently has a consensus target price of $51.86, suggesting a potential downside of 0.20%. Evergy has a consensus target price of $57.83, suggesting a potential upside of 5.81%. Given Evergy's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Evergy is more favorable than NorthWestern Energy Group.
96.1% of NorthWestern Energy Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.2% of Evergy shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of NorthWestern Energy Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Evergy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NorthWestern Energy Group has a net margin of 13.62% compared to Evergy's net margin of 12.84%. Evergy's return on equity of 8.32% beat NorthWestern Energy Group's return on equity.
Summary
Evergy beats NorthWestern Energy Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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