PCYO vs. ARTNA, YORW, WAAS, EDN, OKLO, OPAL, NGL, AMPS, SMLP, and GWRS
Should you be buying Pure Cycle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pure Cycle include Artesian Resources (ARTNA), York Water (YORW), AquaVenture (WAAS), Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN), Oklo (OKLO), OPAL Fuels (OPAL), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), Altus Power (AMPS), Summit Midstream Partners (SMLP), and Global Water Resources (GWRS).
Pure Cycle (NASDAQ:PCYO) and Artesian Resources (NASDAQ:ARTNA) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
51.4% of Pure Cycle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.4% of Artesian Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.9% of Pure Cycle shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.6% of Artesian Resources shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Pure Cycle has a net margin of 31.00% compared to Artesian Resources' net margin of 17.74%. Artesian Resources' return on equity of 7.90% beat Pure Cycle's return on equity.
In the previous week, Pure Cycle and Pure Cycle both had 1 articles in the media. Pure Cycle's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Artesian Resources'average media sentiment score.
Artesian Resources has higher revenue and earnings than Pure Cycle. Artesian 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 received 4 more outperform votes than Artesian Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.79% of users gave Pure Cycle an outperform vote while only 53.80% of users gave Artesian Resources an outperform vote.
Pure Cycle has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Artesian Resources has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pure Cycle beats Artesian Resources on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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