HE vs. POR, OTTR, ALE, PNM, MGEE, ARRY, UTL, NEE, SO, and DUK
Should you be buying Hawaiian Electric Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hawaiian Electric Industries include Portland General Electric (POR), Otter Tail (OTTR), ALLETE (ALE), PNM Resources (PNM), MGE Energy (MGEE), Array Technologies (ARRY), Unitil (UTL), NextEra Energy (NEE), Southern (SO), and Duke Energy (DUK). These companies are all part of the "electric utilities" industry.
Hawaiian Electric Industries (NYSE:HE) and Portland General Electric (NYSE:POR) are both utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Portland General Electric had 4 more articles in the media than Hawaiian Electric Industries. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Portland General Electric and 3 mentions for Hawaiian Electric Industries. Portland General Electric's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Hawaiian Electric Industries' score of 0.01 indicating that Portland General Electric is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Portland General Electric has a net margin of 8.51% compared to Hawaiian Electric Industries' net margin of 5.16%. Hawaiian Electric Industries' return on equity of 9.58% beat Portland General Electric's return on equity.
Hawaiian Electric Industries presently has a consensus price target of $11.63, indicating a potential upside of 5.78%. Portland General Electric has a consensus price target of $44.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.26%. Given Hawaiian Electric Industries' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Hawaiian Electric Industries is more favorable than Portland General Electric.
Hawaiian Electric Industries has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Portland General Electric has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
59.9% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Hawaiian Electric Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Portland General Electric shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Portland General Electric has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hawaiian Electric Industries. Hawaiian Electric Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Portland General Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hawaiian Electric Industries and Portland General Electric both received 362 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 50.28% of users gave Hawaiian Electric Industries an outperform vote while only 46.17% of users gave Portland General Electric an outperform vote.
Summary
Portland General Electric beats Hawaiian Electric Industries on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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