NI vs. SRE, D, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CNP, CMS, and MDU
Should you be buying NiSource stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NiSource include Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), CMS Energy (CMS), and MDU Resources Group (MDU). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
NiSource (NYSE:NI) and Sempra (NYSE:SRE) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and dividends.
NiSource pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. NiSource pays out 69.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sempra pays out 54.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
91.6% of NiSource shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.7% of Sempra shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of NiSource shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Sempra 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.
In the previous week, Sempra had 1 more articles in the media than NiSource. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Sempra and 9 mentions for NiSource. NiSource's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Sempra's score of 0.82 indicating that NiSource is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NiSource currently has a consensus target price of $29.71, indicating a potential upside of 6.50%. Sempra has a consensus target price of $82.86, indicating a potential upside of 9.91%. Given Sempra's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sempra is more favorable than NiSource.
NiSource has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sempra has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sempra has a net margin of 20.99% compared to NiSource's net margin of 14.23%. NiSource's return on equity of 9.56% beat Sempra's return on equity.
Sempra has higher revenue and earnings than NiSource. Sempra is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NiSource, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sempra received 55 more outperform votes than NiSource when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.08% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote while only 54.10% of users gave NiSource an outperform vote.
Summary
Sempra beats NiSource on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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