AEE vs. FE, AES, ETR, PCG, SRE, D, PEG, ED, WEC, and DTE
Should you be buying Ameren stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ameren include FirstEnergy (FE), AES (AES), Entergy (ETR), PG&E (PCG), Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), and DTE Energy (DTE). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
FirstEnergy (NYSE:FE) and Ameren (NYSE:AEE) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
89.4% of FirstEnergy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.1% of Ameren shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of FirstEnergy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Ameren shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
FirstEnergy pays an annual dividend of $1.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Ameren pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. FirstEnergy pays out 97.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ameren pays out 61.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FirstEnergy has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Ameren has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
FirstEnergy received 243 more outperform votes than Ameren when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.45% of users gave FirstEnergy an outperform vote while only 51.25% of users gave Ameren an outperform vote.
FirstEnergy has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ameren has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ameren has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FirstEnergy. Ameren is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FirstEnergy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ameren had 10 more articles in the media than FirstEnergy. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Ameren and 11 mentions for FirstEnergy. FirstEnergy's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Ameren's score of 0.68 indicating that Ameren is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ameren has a net margin of 15.84% compared to Ameren's net margin of 8.22%. Ameren's return on equity of 12.45% beat FirstEnergy's return on equity.
FirstEnergy currently has a consensus target price of $40.20, suggesting a potential downside of 0.15%. Ameren has a consensus target price of $79.70, suggesting a potential upside of 8.63%. Given FirstEnergy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ameren is more favorable than FirstEnergy.
Summary
FirstEnergy beats Ameren on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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