GWRS vs. ARTNA, PCYO, CWCO, YORW, MSEX, GNE, BROG, CNSL, CLNE, and SHEN
Should you be buying Global Water Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Water Resources include Artesian Resources (ARTNA), Pure Cycle (PCYO), Consolidated Water (CWCO), York Water (YORW), Middlesex Water (MSEX), Genie Energy (GNE), Brooge Energy (BROG), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), and Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Artesian Resources (NASDAQ:ARTNA) and Global Water Resources (NASDAQ:GWRS) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Artesian Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Global Water Resources. Artesian Resources 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.
Artesian Resources pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Global Water Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Artesian Resources pays out 69.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Global Water Resources pays out 90.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Artesian Resources has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Global Water Resources has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Artesian Resources is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Artesian Resources has a beta of 0.18, meaning that its share price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Water Resources has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Water Resources received 113 more outperform votes than Artesian Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.46% of users gave Global Water Resources an outperform vote while only 53.80% of users gave Artesian Resources an outperform vote.
57.4% of Artesian Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.9% of Global Water Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.6% of Artesian Resources shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 54.9% of Global Water Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Artesian Resources has a net margin of 16.89% compared to Artesian Resources' net margin of 15.05%. Artesian Resources' return on equity of 13.64% beat Global Water Resources' return on equity.
In the previous week, Global Water Resources had 1 more articles in the media than Artesian Resources. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Global Water Resources and 0 mentions for Artesian Resources. Global Water Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Artesian Resources'average media sentiment score.
Summary
Global Water Resources beats Artesian Resources on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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