YORW vs. CWCO, ARTNA, MSEX, SJW, GWRS, PCYO, CNSL, CLNE, GNE, and SHEN
Should you be buying York Water stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of York Water include Consolidated Water (CWCO), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), Middlesex Water (MSEX), SJW Group (SJW), Global Water Resources (GWRS), Pure Cycle (PCYO), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), Genie Energy (GNE), and Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Consolidated Water (NASDAQ:CWCO) and York Water (NASDAQ:YORW) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and media sentiment.
Consolidated Water pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. York Water pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. York Water pays out 50.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Consolidated Water has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and York Water has raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years. York Water is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
55.2% of Consolidated Water shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of York Water shares are held by institutional investors. 5.9% of Consolidated Water shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of York Water shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Consolidated Water has higher revenue and earnings than York Water.
Consolidated Water received 89 more outperform votes than York Water when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.01% of users gave Consolidated Water an outperform vote while only 57.62% of users gave York Water an outperform vote.
Consolidated Water presently has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.63%. Given York Water's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Consolidated Water is more favorable than York Water.
In the previous week, York Water had 6 more articles in the media than Consolidated Water. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for York Water and 3 mentions for Consolidated Water. York Water's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Consolidated Water's score of -0.31 indicating that Consolidated Water is being referred to more favorably in the media.
York Water has a net margin of 33.45% compared to York Water's net margin of 16.42%. York Water's return on equity of 17.15% beat Consolidated Water's return on equity.
Consolidated Water has a beta of 0.14, indicating that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, York Water has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Consolidated Water beats York Water on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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