CWCO vs. ARTNA, YORW, MSEX, GWRS, PCYO, GNE, CNSL, CLNE, BROG, and SHEN
Should you be buying Consolidated Water stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Consolidated Water include Artesian Resources (ARTNA), York Water (YORW), Middlesex Water (MSEX), Global Water Resources (GWRS), Pure Cycle (PCYO), Genie Energy (GNE), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), Brooge Energy (BROG), and Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Artesian Resources (NASDAQ:ARTNA) and Consolidated Water (NASDAQ:CWCO) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
Artesian Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Consolidated Water pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Artesian Resources pays out 68.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Artesian Resources has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Consolidated Water has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Artesian Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
57.4% of Artesian Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.2% of Consolidated Water shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.6% of Artesian Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Consolidated Water shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Consolidated Water has higher revenue and earnings than Artesian Resources.
Consolidated Water received 120 more outperform votes than Artesian Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.87% of users gave Consolidated Water an outperform vote while only 53.80% of users gave Artesian Resources an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Artesian Resources had 9 more articles in the media than Consolidated Water. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Artesian Resources and 5 mentions for Consolidated Water. Consolidated Water's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Artesian Resources' score of 0.33 indicating that Artesian Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Artesian Resources has a beta of 0.2, meaning that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Consolidated Water has a beta of 0.14, meaning that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Artesian Resources has a net margin of 17.25% compared to Artesian Resources' net margin of 16.42%. Artesian Resources' return on equity of 17.15% beat Consolidated Water's return on equity.
Consolidated Water has a consensus price target of $28.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.41%. Given Artesian Resources' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Consolidated Water is more favorable than Artesian Resources.
Summary
Artesian Resources and Consolidated Water tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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