ACO.Y vs. CUP.U, ARR, PIF, LCFS, MXG, INE, ACO.X, CU, BIP.UN, and SXI
Should you be buying ATCO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ATCO include Caribbean Utilities (CUP.U), Altius Renewable Royalties (ARR), Polaris Renewable Energy (PIF), Tidewater Renewables (LCFS), Maxim Power (MXG), Innergex Renewable Energy (INE), ATCO (ACO.X), Canadian Utilities (CU), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP.UN), and Synex Renewable Energy (SXI). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
ATCO (TSE:ACO.Y) and Caribbean Utilities (TSE:CUP.U) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
Caribbean Utilities has a consensus price target of C$12.50, indicating a potential downside of 10.78%.
ATCO pays an annual dividend of C$1.96 per share. Caribbean Utilities pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. ATCO pays out 53.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Caribbean Utilities pays out 72.0% 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.
ATCO has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Caribbean Utilities has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Caribbean Utilities had 3 more articles in the media than ATCO. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Caribbean Utilities and 0 mentions for ATCO. Caribbean Utilities' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat ATCO's score of 0.00 indicating that Caribbean Utilities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ATCO has higher revenue and earnings than Caribbean Utilities. ATCO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caribbean Utilities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Caribbean Utilities has a net margin of 13.46% compared to ATCO's net margin of 8.75%. Caribbean Utilities' return on equity of 12.22% beat ATCO's return on equity.
0.1% of Caribbean Utilities shares are held by institutional investors. 92.9% of ATCO shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 58.5% of Caribbean Utilities shares are held by 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.
ATCO received 12 more outperform votes than Caribbean Utilities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave ATCO an outperform vote while only 54.81% of users gave Caribbean Utilities an outperform vote.
Summary
ATCO and Caribbean Utilities tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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