PCYO vs. GWRS, ARTNA, YORW, CWCO, CNSL, BROG, GNE, EDN, IDT, and CLNE
Should you be buying Pure Cycle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pure Cycle include Global Water Resources (GWRS), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), York Water (YORW), Consolidated Water (CWCO), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Brooge Energy (BROG), Genie Energy (GNE), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), IDT (IDT), and Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Pure Cycle (NASDAQ:PCYO) and Global Water Resources (NASDAQ:GWRS) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
46.6% of Pure Cycle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.4% of Global Water Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 21.3% of Pure Cycle shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 54.9% of Global Water Resources shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Global Water Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Pure Cycle. Global Water Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pure Cycle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pure Cycle has a net margin of 32.22% compared to Global Water Resources' net margin of 14.81%. Global Water Resources' return on equity of 12.60% beat Pure Cycle's return on equity.
Global Water Resources received 109 more outperform votes than Pure Cycle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.30% of users gave Pure Cycle an outperform vote while only 65.46% of users gave Global Water Resources an outperform vote.
Pure Cycle has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Water Resources has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Pure Cycle and Pure Cycle both had 3 articles in the media. Pure Cycle's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Global Water Resources' score of 0.43 indicating that Pure Cycle is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Pure Cycle beats Global Water Resources on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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