GWRS vs. PCYO, CWCO, ARTNA, YORW, GNE, CNSL, BROG, TDS, IDT, and UTL
Should you be buying Global Water Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Water Resources include Pure Cycle (PCYO), Consolidated Water (CWCO), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), York Water (YORW), Genie Energy (GNE), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Brooge Energy (BROG), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), IDT (IDT), and Unitil (UTL). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Global Water Resources vs.
Global Water Resources (NASDAQ:GWRS) and Pure Cycle (NASDAQ:PCYO) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Pure Cycle has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Global Water Resources. Pure Cycle 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.
Global Water Resources has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pure Cycle has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Water Resources received 110 more outperform votes than Pure Cycle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.65% of users gave Pure Cycle an outperform vote while only 65.83% of users gave Global Water Resources an outperform vote.
29.3% of Global Water Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.5% of Pure Cycle shares are held by institutional investors. 45.1% of Global Water Resources shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.4% of Pure Cycle shares are held 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 currently has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential upside of 40.73%. Given Global Water Resources' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Global Water Resources is more favorable than Pure Cycle.
In the previous week, Global Water Resources had 2 more articles in the media than Pure Cycle. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Global Water Resources and 1 mentions for Pure Cycle. Global Water Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Pure Cycle's score of 0.00 indicating that Global Water Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pure Cycle has a net margin of 36.74% compared to Global Water Resources' net margin of 14.81%. Global Water Resources' return on equity of 13.08% beat Pure Cycle's return on equity.
Summary
Global Water Resources beats Pure Cycle on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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