GNE vs. UTL, CWCO, ARTNA, YORW, CNSL, CLNE, GWRS, PCYO, SHEN, and BROG
Should you be buying Genie Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genie Energy include Unitil (UTL), Consolidated Water (CWCO), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), York Water (YORW), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), Global Water Resources (GWRS), Pure Cycle (PCYO), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), and Brooge Energy (BROG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Genie Energy (NYSE:GNE) and Unitil (NYSE:UTL) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.
Genie Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Unitil pays an annual dividend of $1.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Genie Energy pays out 40.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unitil pays out 60.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Unitil had 4 more articles in the media than Genie Energy. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Unitil and 2 mentions for Genie Energy. Genie Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Unitil's score of 0.37 indicating that Genie Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Unitil received 153 more outperform votes than Genie Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.79% of users gave Unitil an outperform vote while only 57.10% of users gave Genie Energy an outperform vote.
Unitil has a consensus price target of $51.00, indicating a potential downside of 3.10%. Given Unitil's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Unitil is more favorable than Genie Energy.
49.2% of Genie Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.8% of Unitil shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.5% of Genie Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Unitil 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.
Genie Energy has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unitil has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Unitil has a net margin of 8.11% compared to Genie Energy's net margin of 4.56%. Genie Energy's return on equity of 25.39% beat Unitil's return on equity.
Unitil has higher revenue and earnings than Genie Energy. Unitil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genie Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Unitil beats Genie Energy on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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