CWCO vs. ARTNA, YORW, MSEX, GWRS, PCYO, GNE, CNSL, CLNE, SHEN, and BROG
Should you be buying Consolidated Water stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Consolidated Water include Artesian Resources (ARTNA), York Water (YORW), Middlesex Water (MSEX), Global Water Resources (GWRS), Pure Cycle (PCYO), Genie Energy (GNE), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), and Brooge Energy (BROG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Artesian Resources (NASDAQ:ARTNA) and Consolidated Water (NASDAQ:CWCO) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Consolidated Water received 119 more outperform votes than Artesian Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.93% of users gave Consolidated Water an outperform vote while only 53.80% of users gave Artesian Resources an outperform vote.
Artesian Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Consolidated Water pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Artesian Resources pays out 69.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Artesian Resources has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Consolidated Water has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Artesian Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Artesian Resources has a net margin of 16.89% compared to Artesian Resources' net margin of 16.42%. Artesian Resources' return on equity of 17.15% beat Consolidated Water's return on equity.
Artesian Resources has a beta of 0.18, meaning that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Consolidated Water has a beta of 0.09, meaning that its stock price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Consolidated Water has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.70%. Given Artesian Resources' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Consolidated Water is more favorable than Artesian Resources.
In the previous week, Consolidated Water had 3 more articles in the media than Artesian Resources. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Consolidated Water and 0 mentions for Artesian Resources. Artesian Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Consolidated Water's score of 0.00 indicating that Consolidated Water is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
57.4% of Artesian Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.2% of Consolidated Water shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.6% of Artesian Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Consolidated Water shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Consolidated Water has higher revenue and earnings than Artesian Resources.
Summary
Consolidated Water beats Artesian Resources on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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