CDZI vs. YORW, CWCO, ARTNA, WAAS, AWK, CWT, AWR, SJW, MSEX, and GWRS
Should you be buying Cadiz stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cadiz include York Water (YORW), Consolidated Water (CWCO), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), AquaVenture (WAAS), American Water Works (AWK), California Water Service Group (CWT), American States Water (AWR), SJW Group (SJW), Middlesex Water (MSEX), and Global Water Resources (GWRS).
York Water (NASDAQ:YORW) and Cadiz (NASDAQ:CDZI) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Cadiz received 4 more outperform votes than York Water when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.30% of users gave Cadiz an outperform vote while only 57.62% of users gave York Water an outperform vote.
York Water has a net margin of 33.35% compared to York Water's net margin of -925.72%. Cadiz's return on equity of 11.18% beat York Water's return on equity.
In the previous week, Cadiz had 6 more articles in the media than York Water. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Cadiz and 7 mentions for York Water. York Water's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Cadiz's score of 0.63 indicating that Cadiz is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
York Water has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadiz has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
49.9% of York Water shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of Cadiz shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of York Water shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Cadiz 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.
York Water has higher revenue and earnings than Cadiz. Cadiz is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than York Water, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Cadiz beats York Water on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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