PCG vs. SRE, D, PEG, ED, WEC, DTE, AEE, CMS, CNP, and NI
Should you be buying PG&E stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PG&E include Sempra (SRE), Dominion Energy (D), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), and NiSource (NI). These companies are all part of the "multi-utilities" industry.
PG&E (NYSE:PCG) and Sempra (NYSE:SRE) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.
PG&E presently has a consensus price target of $20.44, indicating a potential upside of 9.45%. Sempra has a consensus price target of $83.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.49%. Given PG&E's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe PG&E is more favorable than Sempra.
Sempra has a net margin of 22.31% compared to PG&E's net margin of 10.22%. PG&E's return on equity of 11.76% beat Sempra's return on equity.
PG&E received 393 more outperform votes than Sempra when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.36% of users gave PG&E an outperform vote while only 60.20% of users gave Sempra an outperform vote.
PG&E pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Sempra pays an annual dividend of $2.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. PG&E pays out 3.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sempra pays out 55.0% 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.
78.6% of PG&E shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.7% of Sempra shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of PG&E shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Sempra shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
PG&E has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sempra has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sempra has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PG&E. PG&E is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sempra, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PG&E had 10 more articles in the media than Sempra. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for PG&E and 9 mentions for Sempra. Sempra's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat PG&E's score of 0.09 indicating that Sempra is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Sempra beats PG&E on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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