PCYO vs. GWRS, ARTNA, CWCO, YORW, BROG, GNE, CNSL, CLNE, EDN, and UTL
Should you be buying Pure Cycle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pure Cycle include Global Water Resources (GWRS), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), Consolidated Water (CWCO), York Water (YORW), Brooge Energy (BROG), Genie Energy (GNE), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), and Unitil (UTL). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Pure Cycle (NASDAQ:PCYO) and Global Water Resources (NASDAQ:GWRS) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
Pure Cycle has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Water Resources has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Water Resources received 109 more outperform votes than Pure Cycle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.79% of users gave Pure Cycle an outperform vote while only 65.46% of users gave Global Water Resources an outperform vote.
Global Water Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Pure Cycle. Pure Cycle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Water Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Global Water Resources had 13 more articles in the media than Pure Cycle. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Global Water Resources and 0 mentions for Pure Cycle. Global Water Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.01 beat Pure Cycle's score of 0.00 indicating that Global Water Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
51.4% of Pure Cycle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.9% of Global Water Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 15.9% of Pure Cycle shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 54.9% of Global Water Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pure Cycle has a net margin of 34.68% compared to Global Water Resources' net margin of 12.05%. Global Water Resources' return on equity of 13.32% beat Pure Cycle's return on equity.
Summary
Global Water Resources beats Pure Cycle on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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