CUP.U vs. KWH.UN, FTS, H, EMA, INE, VNR, ACI, ACO.Y, GWR, and HEO
Should you be buying Caribbean Utilities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Caribbean Utilities include Crius Energy Unt (KWH.UN), Fortis (FTS), Hydro One (H), Emera (EMA), Innergex Renewable Energy (INE), Valener (VNR), TriSummit Utilities Inc. (ACI.TO) (ACI), ATCO (ACO.Y), Global Water Resources (GWR), and H2O Innovation (HEO). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Crius Energy Unt (TSE:KWH.UN) and Caribbean Utilities (TSE:CUP.U) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Caribbean Utilities has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Crius Energy Unt. Crius Energy Unt is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caribbean Utilities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crius Energy Unt pays an annual dividend of C$0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Caribbean Utilities pays an annual dividend of C$0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Crius Energy Unt pays out -291.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Caribbean Utilities pays out 72.5% 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. Crius Energy Unt is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Caribbean Utilities has a consensus target price of C$14.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.69%. Given Crius Energy Unt's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Caribbean Utilities is more favorable than Crius Energy Unt.
Caribbean Utilities has a net margin of 13.90% compared to Caribbean Utilities' net margin of 0.00%. Crius Energy Unt's return on equity of 12.52% beat Caribbean Utilities' return on equity.
0.1% of Caribbean Utilities shares are held by institutional investors. 58.5% of Caribbean Utilities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Caribbean Utilities had 1 more articles in the media than Crius Energy Unt. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Caribbean Utilities and 0 mentions for Crius Energy Unt. Caribbean Utilities' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Crius Energy Unt'saverage media sentiment score.
Crius Energy Unt received 113 more outperform votes than Caribbean Utilities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.03% of users gave Crius Energy Unt an outperform vote while only 54.29% of users gave Caribbean Utilities an outperform vote.
Summary
Caribbean Utilities beats Crius Energy Unt on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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