Based on the aggregated intelligence of 170,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, utility company Pacific Gas & Electric Corp.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at PG&E's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
PG&E facts
Headquarters (Founded) |
San Francisco (1905) |
Market Cap |
$16.7 billion |
Industry |
Diversified utilities |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$14 billion |
Management |
Interim Chairman/Interim CEO C. Lee Cox CFO Kent Harvey |
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) |
11.4% |
Cash/Debt |
$240 million / $13.2 billion |
Dividend Yield |
4.3% |
Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96% of the 295 members who have rated PG&E believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include prophetofprofit7 and All-Star ikkyu2, who is ranked in the top 5% of our community.
A few months ago , prophetofprofit7 listed several of PG&E's positives:
-4.1% dividend yield
-keeps up with inflation
-monopoly
-compounded dividend dividend reinvestment = you rich
Currently, PG&E even sports a paltry price-to-cash flow of 4.2. That represents a discount to industry peers like Duke Energy
CAPS All-Star ikkyu2 expands on the PG&E outperform argument:
I am a captive PCG customer; they are a lightly "regulated" electric utility serving most of California with gas and electric service. Their ability to pass along their costs in terms of rate hikes has been untrammeled by any legislative interference, and recently they placed an initiative on the ballot that essentially prohibited entry to any competitor in their markets. This company rules, and no challenge to its authority is permitted.
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