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Is ENGIE - Sponsored ADR (ENGIY) Stock Outpacing Its Utilities Peers This Year?

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The Utilities group has plenty of great stocks, but investors should always be looking for companies that are outperforming their peers. Has ENGIE - Sponsored ADR (ENGIY - Free Report) been one of those stocks this year? Let's take a closer look at the stock's year-to-date performance to find out.

ENGIE - Sponsored ADR is one of 107 companies in the Utilities group. The Utilities group currently sits at #6 within the Zacks Sector Rank. The Zacks Sector Rank considers 16 different groups, measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the sector to gauge the strength of each group.

The Zacks Rank is a proven system that emphasizes earnings estimates and estimate revisions, highlighting a variety of stocks that are displaying the right characteristics to beat the market over the next one to three months. ENGIE - Sponsored ADR is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #1 (Strong Buy).

Within the past quarter, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for ENGIY's full-year earnings has moved 4% higher. This signals that analyst sentiment is improving and the stock's earnings outlook is more positive.

Based on the latest available data, ENGIY has gained about 14.3% so far this year. Meanwhile, the Utilities sector has returned an average of 4.4% on a year-to-date basis. This means that ENGIE - Sponsored ADR is outperforming the sector as a whole this year.

Enel SpA (ENLAY - Free Report) is another Utilities stock that has outperformed the sector so far this year. Since the beginning of the year, the stock has returned 6%.

The consensus estimate for Enel SpA's current year EPS has increased 1.2% over the past three months. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).

Looking more specifically, ENGIE - Sponsored ADR belongs to the Utility - Electric Power industry, a group that includes 58 individual stocks and currently sits at #89 in the Zacks Industry Rank. On average, stocks in this group have gained 5% this year, meaning that ENGIY is performing better in terms of year-to-date returns. Enel SpA is also part of the same industry.

ENGIE - Sponsored ADR and Enel SpA could continue their solid performance, so investors interested in Utilities stocks should continue to pay close attention to these stocks.

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