COMPARE · Data as of August 24, 2026
AEP vs MWH
Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. AEP scored 63.3, MWH scored 72.0 — MWH leads.
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Different reporting periods. AEP's fundamentals are as of June 2026, but MWH's are as of March 2026 — a 3-month gap. Growth, margin and valuation figures below therefore describe different windows and aren't strictly like-for-like.
AEP
American Electric Power Company, Inc.
63.3
$120.94 · $65.8B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
8.7
MWH leads
MWH
SOLV Energy, Inc.
72
$28.04 · $5.7B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
- Fastest growthMWH+34.8%
- Strongest balance sheetMWH0.10
- Highest qualityMWH75 / 100
- Largest discount to fair valueMWH-34%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
AEP
stronger →← stronger
MWH
48
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
75
84
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
95
64
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
87
MWH is stronger on 3 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
AEP
MWH
-$2.4bF
FCF
$368mC
+10.9%B
Rev
+34.8%A
1.61C+
D/E
0.10A
2.9xB
P/S
—
2.15C
PEG
1.13B+
—
P/E
47.5xD
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
AEP
MWH
—
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
34% below
—
Growth the price implies10-yr FCF · lower = less priced in
~4%/yr
—
1-yr DCF upside
+16%
—
5-yr DCF upside
+52%
—
10-yr DCF upside
+127%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
AEP
Why this score
- Short track record
MWH
Why this score
- Short track record
The companies
AEPAmerican Electric Power Company, Inc.
Why now
Utilities - Regulated Electric · market cap $65.8b. 14% off the 52-week high of $140.58. Revenue growing +11%, comfortably above the S&P median. 20 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $144.20 (implying +19% upside).
Moat
Net margin 14% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 10% meets the long-run market sustainable threshold — solid but not differentiated; the durability comes from elsewhere. $65.8b market cap gives the company enough scale to absorb fixed costs that subscale competitors can't, without yet being so large that growth has to come from acquisition.
Risk
Free cash flow is negative (-$2.4b) — capital raises or debt issuance likely required; dilution / leverage risk.
MWHSOLV Energy, Inc.
Why now
Utilities - Renewable · market cap $5.7b. Down 42% from 52-week high of $48.40 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue growing +35% — in hypergrowth territory. 11 sell-side analysts rate this a Strong Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $45.18 (implying +61% upside).
Moat
Free cash flow runs well ahead of reported net income — non-cash charges (depreciation, intangible amortization) are holding down GAAP earnings while cash generation stays strong.
Risk
Down 42% from the 52-week high — the market is pricing in something the screen can't see; verify the bear case before sizing up. Trailing P/E 48x sits well above the S&P median (~20x) — multiple compression is a real risk if revenue growth decelerates. Net margin 3.8% is thin — operating leverage cuts both ways; input-cost inflation or pricing pressure hits the bottom line first.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
MWH leads AEP by 5.1 points (72.0 to 66.9), its sharpest advantage coming in PEG (grade B+). A contrarian could still prefer AEP, which trades about 4% below our DCF fair value — a margin of safety the score doesn't reward. All screen as growth-type names but sit in different sectors (Utilities - Regulated Electric versus Utilities - Renewable), so their grades are relative to different peer sets.
Our AI analyst is busy right now, so this verdict is drawn directly from the pillars, grades and DCF above.
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Where AEP and MWH diverge
On the headline score the gap is 8.7 points in favor of MWH. The widest single difference is Quality, where MWH leads by 27.3 points.
- QualityAEP 47.6 · MWH 74.9MWH +27.3
- ValueAEP 63.7 · MWH 86.6MWH +22.9
- GrowthAEP 83.9 · MWH 95.2MWH +11.3
Pillars run 0–100 against sector peers, so a score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.