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ATCO (ACO.Y) Competitors

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C$53.00 +0.50 (+0.95%)
As of 05/21/2025 10:46 AM Eastern

ACO.Y vs. JE, BIP.UN, CU, ACO.X, SPB, VNR, ACI, CUP.U, KWH.UN, and GWR

Should you be buying ATCO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ATCO include Just Energy Group (JE), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP.UN), Canadian Utilities (CU), ATCO (ACO.X), Superior Plus (SPB), Valener (VNR), TriSummit Utilities Inc. (ACI.TO) (ACI), Caribbean Utilities (CUP.U), Crius Energy Unt (KWH.UN), and Global Water Resources (GWR). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.

ATCO vs.

Just Energy Group (TSE:JE) and ATCO (TSE:ACO.Y) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

ATCO has higher revenue and earnings than Just Energy Group. Just Energy Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ATCO, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Just Energy GroupC$2.46B0.00-C$485.26M-C$10.09N/A
ATCOC$4.71B0.14C$385MC$3.4215.50

Just Energy Group received 188 more outperform votes than ATCO when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.71% of users gave ATCO an outperform vote while only 47.16% of users gave Just Energy Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Just Energy GroupOutperform Votes
257
47.16%
Underperform Votes
288
52.84%
ATCOOutperform Votes
69
65.71%
Underperform Votes
36
34.29%

In the previous week, ATCO had 1 more articles in the media than Just Energy Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for ATCO and 0 mentions for Just Energy Group. Just Energy Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled ATCO'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Just Energy Group Neutral
ATCO Neutral

ATCO has a net margin of 8.16% compared to Just Energy Group's net margin of 0.00%. ATCO's return on equity of 8.54% beat Just Energy Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Just Energy GroupN/A N/A N/A
ATCO 8.16%8.54%2.95%

Summary

ATCO beats Just Energy Group on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ACO.Y vs. The Competition

MetricATCOUtilities IndustryUtilities SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$658.79MC$14.79BC$16.41BC$5.94B
Dividend Yield4.19%4.21%5.72%6.32%
P/E Ratio15.5015.1820.3729.95
Price / Sales0.1435.2423.07752.53
Price / Cash3.8416.8918.6883.71
Price / Book1.322.672.113.96
Net IncomeC$385M-C$1.47BC$674.16MC$301.32M
7 Day PerformanceN/A2.06%1.65%0.84%
1 Month PerformanceN/A2.92%2.94%7.48%
1 Year PerformanceN/A11.82%7.65%16.03%

ATCO Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ACO.Y
ATCO
N/AC$53.00
+1.0%
N/AN/AC$658.79MC$4.71B15.5020,175
JE
Just Energy Group
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$236.55MC$2.46B-0.491,120
BIP.UN
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
0.516 of 5 stars
C$45.49
+1.5%
C$34.00
-25.3%
+8.4%C$21.00BC$19.78B-252.7244,000
CU
Canadian Utilities
0.7391 of 5 stars
C$37.07
+1.0%
C$38.60
+4.1%
+19.6%C$7.57BC$2.81B20.039,018
ACO.X
ATCO
1.0361 of 5 stars
C$50.48
+0.4%
C$52.70
+4.4%
+27.8%C$5.03BC$4.71B14.7620,175
SPB
Superior Plus
2.503 of 5 stars
C$7.55
+0.4%
C$9.85
+30.5%
-19.4%C$1.27BC$1.80B27.7611,000Analyst Revision
VNR
Valener
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$1.02BC$86.25M17.73381
ACI
TriSummit Utilities Inc. (ACI.TO)
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$1.00BC$326.30M23.92290,000
CUP.U
Caribbean Utilities
N/AC$13.09
+0.7%
N/A-5.0%C$502.26MC$287.75M12.83226News Coverage
Positive News
KWH.UN
Crius Energy Unt
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$498.13MC$1.21B-40.37N/AHigh Trading Volume
GWR
Global Water Resources
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$425.84MC$43.94M59.478,000

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