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Consolidated Water (CWCO) Competitors

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$31.24 +0.31 (+0.99%)
As of 07/3/2025 03:34 PM Eastern
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CWCO vs. GWRS, WTRG, SJW, MSEX, YORW, ARTNA, CDZI, AWK, AWR, and CWT

Should you be buying Consolidated Water stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Consolidated Water include Global Water Resources (GWRS), Essential Utilities (WTRG), SJW Group (SJW), Middlesex Water (MSEX), York Water (YORW), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), Cadiz (CDZI), American Water Works (AWK), American States Water (AWR), and California Water Service Group (CWT).

Consolidated Water vs. Its Competitors

Global Water Resources (NASDAQ:GWRS) and Consolidated Water (NASDAQ:CWCO) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Global Water Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Consolidated Water pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Global Water Resources pays out 130.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Consolidated Water pays out 34.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Global Water Resources has raised its dividend for 8 consecutive years and Consolidated Water has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Global Water Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Consolidated Water has higher revenue and earnings than Global Water Resources. Consolidated Water is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Water Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Global Water Resources$52.69M5.44$5.79M$0.2345.37
Consolidated Water$133.97M3.71$28.24M$1.6219.29

In the previous week, Global Water Resources had 3 more articles in the media than Consolidated Water. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Global Water Resources and 2 mentions for Consolidated Water. Global Water Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Consolidated Water's score of 0.20 indicating that Global Water Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Global Water Resources
0 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Consolidated Water
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

27.9% of Global Water Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.2% of Consolidated Water shares are owned by institutional investors. 54.3% of Global Water Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Consolidated Water shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Global Water Resources has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Consolidated Water has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Consolidated Water has a net margin of 20.75% compared to Global Water Resources' net margin of 10.63%. Global Water Resources' return on equity of 11.27% beat Consolidated Water's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Global Water Resources10.63% 11.27% 1.52%
Consolidated Water 20.75%7.43%6.61%

Summary

Global Water Resources beats Consolidated Water on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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CWCO vs. The Competition

MetricConsolidated WaterUTIL IndustryUtilities SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$492.46M$7.27B$15.85B$8.95B
Dividend Yield1.81%2.65%5.56%4.08%
P/E Ratio19.2918.5620.4520.04
Price / Sales3.714.5429.08118.60
Price / Cash19.9413.1919.1257.47
Price / Book2.302.352.165.67
Net Income$28.24M$420.94M$751.09M$248.47M
7 Day Performance3.67%2.27%1.23%2.90%
1 Month Performance13.49%2.11%3.13%5.75%
1 Year Performance27.32%8.71%17.01%21.36%

Consolidated Water Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CWCO
Consolidated Water
3.3348 of 5 stars
$31.25
+1.0%
N/A+27.3%$492.46M$133.97M19.29200
GWRS
Global Water Resources
2.6996 of 5 stars
$10.19
flat
N/A-13.2%$279.73M$52.69M44.3190Dividend Announcement
WTRG
Essential Utilities
4.8089 of 5 stars
$37.11
+0.5%
$43.50
+17.2%
+0.1%$10.35B$2.09B16.643,291
SJW
SJW Group
3.9569 of 5 stars
N/A$57.50
+∞
N/A$1.88B$766.66M17.93760
MSEX
Middlesex Water
3.112 of 5 stars
$54.18
-0.6%
$61.00
+12.6%
+5.4%$976.83M$191.88M22.48350Positive News
YORW
York Water
3.1885 of 5 stars
$31.60
-0.8%
N/A-11.5%$458.51M$74.96M23.07110News Coverage
Ex-Dividend
High Trading Volume
ARTNA
Artesian Resources
3.9389 of 5 stars
$33.56
-0.4%
N/A-6.8%$347.49M$107.95M16.13240
CDZI
Cadiz
4.0117 of 5 stars
$2.99
-4.2%
$10.00
+234.4%
+2.9%$255.45M$9.61M-5.4410
AWK
American Water Works
4.1435 of 5 stars
$139.15
+0.9%
$143.22
+2.9%
+9.3%$26.90B$4.68B25.356,700Positive News
AWR
American States Water
4.0344 of 5 stars
$76.57
+0.2%
$77.50
+1.2%
+7.8%$2.94B$595.46M23.56810Positive News
CWT
California Water Service Group
4.9069 of 5 stars
$45.48
+0.0%
$58.00
+27.5%
-4.3%$2.71B$1.04B19.951,278

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This page (NASDAQ:CWCO) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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