VEON vs. SJW, TDS, TAC, NWN, HE, KEN, CPK, IDT, PAM, and MSEX
Should you be buying VEON stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VEON include SJW Group (SJW), Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), TransAlta (TAC), Northwest Natural (NWN), Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), Kenon (KEN), Chesapeake Utilities (CPK), IDT (IDT), Pampa Energía (PAM), and Middlesex Water (MSEX). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
SJW Group (NYSE:SJW) and VEON (NASDAQ:VEON) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.
SJW Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than VEON.
VEON has a net margin of 37.89% compared to VEON's net margin of 12.68%. SJW Group's return on equity of 102.03% beat VEON's return on equity.
SJW Group has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VEON has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SJW Group presently has a consensus target price of $66.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.32%. Given VEON's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SJW Group is more favorable than VEON.
84.3% of SJW Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.3% of VEON shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of SJW Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, SJW Group had 5 more articles in the media than VEON. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for SJW Group and 7 mentions for VEON. SJW Group's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat VEON's score of -0.03 indicating that VEON is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
VEON received 13 more outperform votes than SJW Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.71% of users gave SJW Group an outperform vote while only 57.82% of users gave VEON an outperform vote.
Summary
VEON beats SJW Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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