VEON vs. SJW, TAC, NWN, TDS, KEN, CPK, HE, MYRG, PAM, and MSEX
Should you be buying VEON stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VEON include SJW Group (SJW), TransAlta (TAC), Northwest Natural (NWN), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), Kenon (KEN), Chesapeake Utilities (CPK), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), MYR Group (MYRG), Pampa Energía (PAM), and Middlesex Water (MSEX). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
SJW Group (NYSE:SJW) and VEON (NASDAQ:VEON) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
84.3% of SJW Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.3% of VEON shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of SJW Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SJW Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than VEON.
VEON has a net margin of 37.89% compared to VEON's net margin of 12.48%. SJW Group's return on equity of 102.03% beat VEON's return on equity.
SJW Group has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VEON has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
VEON received 14 more outperform votes than SJW Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.61% of users gave SJW Group an outperform vote while only 57.88% of users gave VEON an outperform vote.
In the previous week, VEON had 11 more articles in the media than SJW Group. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for VEON and 3 mentions for SJW Group. VEON's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat SJW Group's score of 0.24 indicating that SJW Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SJW Group currently has a consensus price target of $66.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.91%. Given VEON's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe SJW Group is more favorable than VEON.
Summary
VEON beats SJW Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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