ACO.Y vs. CUP.U, ARR, LCFS, PIF, MXG, INE, ACO.X, CU, BIP.UN, and SXI
Should you be buying ATCO stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ATCO include Caribbean Utilities (CUP.U), Altius Renewable Royalties (ARR), Tidewater Renewables (LCFS), Polaris Renewable Energy (PIF), Maxim Power (MXG), Innergex Renewable Energy (INE), ATCO (ACO.X), Canadian Utilities (CU), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP.UN), and Synex Renewable Energy (SXI). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Caribbean Utilities (TSE:CUP.U) and ATCO (TSE:ACO.Y) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
0.1% of Caribbean Utilities shares are held by institutional investors. 58.5% of Caribbean Utilities shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 92.9% of ATCO shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Caribbean Utilities has a net margin of 13.46% compared to Caribbean Utilities' net margin of 9.11%. ATCO's return on equity of 12.22% beat Caribbean Utilities' return on equity.
Caribbean Utilities has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ATCO has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ATCO received 12 more outperform votes than Caribbean Utilities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.71% of users gave ATCO an outperform vote while only 54.81% of users gave Caribbean Utilities an outperform vote.
Caribbean Utilities pays an annual dividend of C$0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. ATCO pays an annual dividend of C$1.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Caribbean Utilities pays out 72.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ATCO pays out 51.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Caribbean Utilities currently has a consensus target price of C$12.50, suggesting a potential downside of 10.71%. Given ATCO's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Caribbean Utilities is more favorable than ATCO.
ATCO has higher revenue and earnings than Caribbean Utilities. ATCO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caribbean Utilities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Caribbean Utilities had 2 more articles in the media than ATCO. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Caribbean Utilities and 0 mentions for ATCO. ATCO's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Caribbean Utilities' score of 0.00 indicating that Caribbean Utilities is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Caribbean Utilities beats ATCO on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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