CWCO vs. MSEX, YORW, ARTNA, CDZI, AWK, CWT, AWR, SJW, GWRS, and PCYO
Should you be buying Consolidated Water stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Consolidated Water include Middlesex Water (MSEX), York Water (YORW), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), Cadiz (CDZI), American Water Works (AWK), California Water Service Group (CWT), American States Water (AWR), SJW Group (SJW), Global Water Resources (GWRS), and Pure Cycle (PCYO). These companies are all part of the "water supply" industry.
Middlesex Water (NASDAQ:MSEX) and Consolidated Water (NASDAQ:CWCO) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.
Middlesex Water has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Consolidated Water has a beta of 0.14, suggesting that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.
79.5% of Middlesex Water shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.2% of Consolidated Water shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Middlesex Water 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, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Middlesex Water presently has a consensus price target of $58.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.41%. Consolidated Water has a consensus price target of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 5.11%. Given Consolidated Water's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Middlesex Water is more favorable than Consolidated Water.
Middlesex Water pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Consolidated Water pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Middlesex Water pays out 64.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Middlesex Water has raised its dividend for 51 consecutive years and Consolidated Water has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Middlesex Water is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Consolidated Water received 65 more outperform votes than Middlesex Water when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.87% of users gave Consolidated Water an outperform vote while only 61.38% of users gave Middlesex Water an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Consolidated Water had 1 more articles in the media than Middlesex Water. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Consolidated Water and 7 mentions for Middlesex Water. Consolidated Water's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Middlesex Water's score of 0.20 indicating that Middlesex Water is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Middlesex Water has a net margin of 21.55% compared to Middlesex Water's net margin of 17.24%. Middlesex Water's return on equity of 18.02% beat Consolidated Water's return on equity.
Middlesex Water has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Consolidated Water.
Summary
Middlesex Water beats Consolidated Water on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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