VEON vs. SJW, TDS, TAC, NWN, CPK, KEN, MYRG, HE, PAM, and IDT
Should you be buying VEON stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VEON include SJW Group (SJW), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), TransAlta (TAC), Northwest Natural (NWN), Chesapeake Utilities (CPK), Kenon (KEN), MYR Group (MYRG), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Pampa Energía (PAM), and IDT (IDT). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
VEON (NASDAQ:VEON) and SJW Group (NYSE:SJW) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
SJW Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than VEON.
VEON has a net margin of 37.89% compared to SJW Group's net margin of 12.48%. VEON's return on equity of 102.03% beat SJW Group's return on equity.
21.3% of VEON shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of SJW Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of SJW Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SJW Group has a consensus target price of $66.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.66%. Given SJW Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SJW Group is more favorable than VEON.
VEON has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SJW Group has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
VEON received 13 more outperform votes than SJW Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.61% of users gave SJW Group an outperform vote while only 57.82% of users gave VEON an outperform vote.
In the previous week, VEON had 4 more articles in the media than SJW Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for VEON and 7 mentions for SJW Group. SJW Group's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat VEON's score of 0.15 indicating that SJW Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
VEON beats SJW Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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