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How Portrop finds stocks similar to D
D trades in the Utilities sector. Portrop ranks its nearest peers using a four-factor similarity score that combines sector alignment, fundamental resemblance, daily price-return correlation, and market-cap proximity. The resulting list is typically a mix of obvious sector peers and one or two less-obvious comparables that share fundamental or correlation structure without sharing a sector label.
What "similar" means here
- Sector (25%): GICS sector and industry alignment. Captures the business model overlap.
- Fundamentals (30%): P/E, margins, revenue growth, and return on equity — whether the company looks alike on the income statement.
- Correlation (25%): Pearson correlation of daily returns over roughly a year. Captures how the stocks actually move together.
- Size (20%): Market capitalization proximity on a log scale — megacaps are not "similar" to microcaps even if everything else matches.
How to read the results
- Scores above 70 typically indicate strong multi-factor overlap and are useful candidates for substitution, pair analysis, or comparable- company valuation work.
- Scores between 40–70 usually represent partial resemblance — often a shared sector with diverging fundamentals or correlation.
- Low-score entries can still be informative: they surface stocks that Wall Street tends to group together but that Portrop's quantitative profile flags as quite different.
- Similarity is not a buy signal. It is a structural statement about feature overlap — nothing more.
Other utilities stocks commonly compared to D
Based on shared sector classification. These are candidates — the ranked similarity list below is what actually reflects D's closest peers.