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% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Drax Group and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share 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 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
74.8% of Drax Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.1% of shares of all “Independent Power & Renewable Electricity Producers” companies are owned by institutional investors. 21.5% of shares of all “Independent Power & Renewable Electricity Producers” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Drax Group competitors beat Drax Group on 6 of the 9 factors compared.
Drax Group Company Profile
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.
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