PCYO vs. GWRS, ARTNA, CWCO, YORW, MSEX, BROG, GNE, CNSL, CLNE, and SHEN
Should you be buying Pure Cycle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pure Cycle include Global Water Resources (GWRS), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), Consolidated Water (CWCO), York Water (YORW), Middlesex Water (MSEX), Brooge Energy (BROG), Genie Energy (GNE), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), and Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Pure Cycle (NASDAQ:PCYO) and Global Water Resources (NASDAQ:GWRS) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
In the previous week, Global Water Resources had 2 more articles in the media than Pure Cycle. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Global Water Resources and 1 mentions for Pure Cycle. Pure Cycle's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Global Water Resources' score of 0.43 indicating that Pure Cycle is being referred to more favorably in the media.
51.4% of Pure Cycle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.9% of Global Water Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.9% of Pure Cycle shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 54.0% of Global Water Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Global Water Resources received 109 more outperform votes than Pure Cycle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.79% of users gave Pure Cycle an outperform vote while only 65.46% of users gave Global Water Resources an outperform vote.
Global Water Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Pure Cycle. Pure Cycle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Water Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pure Cycle has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Water Resources has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pure Cycle has a net margin of 34.68% compared to Global Water Resources' net margin of 15.05%. Global Water Resources' return on equity of 13.64% beat Pure Cycle's return on equity.
Summary
Global Water Resources beats Pure Cycle on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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