Comparing Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029 (NYSE:TVE) & Genie Energy (NYSE:GNE)

Genie Energy (NYSE:GNE) and Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029 (NYSE:TVE) are both utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

49.2% of Genie Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.5% of Genie Energy shares are owned by 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Genie Energy and Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Genie Energy	0	2	0	0	2.00
Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029	0	0	0	0	0.00

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Genie Energy and Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029″s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Genie Energy	$502.62 million	0.77	$24.01 million	$0.81	18.16
Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Genie Energy has higher revenue and earnings than Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029.

Profitability

This table compares Genie Energy and Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Genie Energy	4.95%	13.00%	7.61%
Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029	N/A	N/A	N/A

Dividends

Genie Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029 pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Genie Energy pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Genie Energy beats Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029 on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Genie Energy

Genie Energy Ltd., through its subsidiaries, engages in the supply of electricity and natural gas to residential and small business customers in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, GRE and Genie Renewables. The company also develops, constructs, and operates solar energy projects for commercial and industrial customers, as well as its own portfolio; provides energy brokerage and advisory services; markets community solar energy solutions; and manufactures and distributes solar panel, as well as engages in solar installation design and project management activities. Genie Energy Ltd. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

About Tennessee Valley Authority PARRS A 2029

for more than eight decades, the tennessee valley authority has provided affordable electricity, environmental stewardship and economic development opportunities to the tennessee valley. tva was established by congress in 1933 to address a wide range of environmental, economic and technological issues, including the need for low-cost electricity, and navigation and flood control along the tennessee river system. tva is fully self-financing, funding virtually all operations through electricity sales and power system bond financing. tva makes no profit and receives no tax money. tva’s power service territory includes most off tennessee and parts of alabama, georgia, kentucky, mississippi, north carolina and virginia, covering 80,000 square miles and providing electricity to more than 9 million people at prices below the national average, tva sales electricity to 155 local power companies and 57 directly served industries and federal facilities. mission: tva was built for the people – to