CUP.U vs. ACO.Y, ARR, PIF, LCFS, MXG, INE, EMA, H, FTS, and SXI
Should you be buying Caribbean Utilities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Caribbean Utilities include ATCO (ACO.Y), Altius Renewable Royalties (ARR), Polaris Renewable Energy (PIF), Tidewater Renewables (LCFS), Maxim Power (MXG), Innergex Renewable Energy (INE), Emera (EMA), Hydro One (H), Fortis (FTS), and Synex Renewable Energy (SXI). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
ATCO (TSE:ACO.Y) and Caribbean Utilities (TSE:CUP.U) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and earnings.
0.1% of Caribbean Utilities shares are held by institutional investors. 92.9% of ATCO shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 58.5% of Caribbean Utilities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Caribbean Utilities has a net margin of 13.46% compared to Caribbean Utilities' net margin of 8.75%. ATCO's return on equity of 12.22% beat Caribbean Utilities' return on equity.
ATCO has higher revenue and earnings than Caribbean Utilities. ATCO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caribbean Utilities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ATCO pays an annual dividend of C$1.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Caribbean Utilities pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. ATCO pays out 53.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Caribbean Utilities pays out 72.0% 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.
ATCO has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Caribbean Utilities has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Caribbean Utilities had 4 more articles in the media than ATCO. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Caribbean Utilities and 1 mentions for ATCO. ATCO's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Caribbean Utilities' score of 0.00 indicating that Caribbean Utilities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ATCO received 12 more outperform votes than Caribbean Utilities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave ATCO an outperform vote while only 54.29% of users gave Caribbean Utilities an outperform vote.
Caribbean Utilities has a consensus price target of C$14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.07%. Given ATCO's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Caribbean Utilities is more favorable than ATCO.
Summary
Caribbean Utilities beats ATCO on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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