ALA vs. PPL, KEY, GEI, TPZ, KML, TWM, ENB, TRP, CCO, and TOU
Should you be buying AltaGas stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AltaGas include Pembina Pipeline (PPL), Keyera (KEY), Gibson Energy (GEI), Topaz Energy (TPZ), Kinder Morgan Canada Limited (KML.TO) (KML), Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure (TWM), Enbridge (ENB), TC Energy (TRP), Cameco (CCO), and Tourmaline Oil (TOU).
AltaGas (TSE:ALA) and Pembina Pipeline (TSE:PPL) are both energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and dividends.
AltaGas currently has a consensus target price of C$35.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.82%. Pembina Pipeline has a consensus target price of C$54.25, suggesting a potential upside of 7.15%. Given AltaGas' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AltaGas is more favorable than Pembina Pipeline.
Pembina Pipeline received 107 more outperform votes than AltaGas when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.05% of users gave AltaGas an outperform vote while only 62.09% of users gave Pembina Pipeline an outperform vote.
AltaGas has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pembina Pipeline has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Pembina Pipeline has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AltaGas. AltaGas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pembina Pipeline, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
34.1% of AltaGas shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.2% of Pembina Pipeline shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of AltaGas shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Pembina Pipeline shares are held 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.
In the previous week, AltaGas had 8 more articles in the media than Pembina Pipeline. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for AltaGas and 5 mentions for Pembina Pipeline. Pembina Pipeline's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat AltaGas' score of 0.57 indicating that Pembina Pipeline is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pembina Pipeline has a net margin of 20.39% compared to AltaGas' net margin of 5.03%. Pembina Pipeline's return on equity of 11.65% beat AltaGas' return on equity.
AltaGas pays an annual dividend of C$1.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Pembina Pipeline pays an annual dividend of C$2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. AltaGas pays out 57.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pembina Pipeline pays out 88.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Pembina Pipeline beats AltaGas on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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