Drax Group (DRXGF) and Its Peers Head to Head Review

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Drax Group and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Drax Group	N/A	N/A	-33.07
Drax Group Competitors	$6.36 billion	$832.74 million	8.13

Drax Group’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Drax Group. Drax Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

74.8% of Drax Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.1% of shares of all “Independent Power & Renewable Electricity Producers” companies are held by institutional investors. 21.5% of shares of all “Independent Power & Renewable Electricity Producers” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Drax Group pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Drax Group pays out -59.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Independent Power & Renewable Electricity Producers” companies pay a dividend yield of 6.6% and pay out 279.6% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Profitability

This table compares Drax Group and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Drax Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Drax Group Competitors	-42.27%	13.40%	0.80%

Summary

Drax Group competitors beat Drax Group on 6 of the 9 factors compared.

About Drax Group

Drax Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in renewable power generation in the United Kingdom. It operates through three segments: Pellet Production, Generation, and Customers. The Pellet Production segment produces and sells biomass pellets. The Generation segment provides renewable, dispatchable power, and system support services to the electricity grid. The Customers segment supplies electricity and gas to non-domestic customers. The company owns and operates Drax Power Station located in Selby, North Yorkshire; Cruachan Power Station, a pumped storage hydro station, with an installed capacity of 440 megawatts (MW) located in Argyll and Bute; and Lanark and Galloway hydro-electric power stations with an installed capacity of 126 MW located in southwest Scotland. It also owns and operates Daldowie fuel plant that processes sludge, a plant that converts it into dry low-odour fuel pellets. In addition, the company manufactures and sells compressed wood pellets; and supplies renewable electricity. Drax Group plc was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Selby, the United Kingdom.