ARTNA vs. WAAS, MSEX, YORW, CWCO, CDZI, AWK, CWT, AWR, SJW, and GWRS
Should you be buying Artesian Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Artesian Resources include AquaVenture (WAAS), Middlesex Water (MSEX), York Water (YORW), Consolidated Water (CWCO), Cadiz (CDZI), American Water Works (AWK), California Water Service Group (CWT), American States Water (AWR), SJW Group (SJW), and Global Water Resources (GWRS).
Artesian Resources (NASDAQ:ARTNA) and AquaVenture (NYSE:WAAS) 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, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Artesian Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AquaVenture. AquaVenture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Artesian Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AquaVenture received 48 more outperform votes than Artesian Resources when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.77% of users gave AquaVenture an outperform vote while only 53.80% of users gave Artesian Resources an outperform vote.
Artesian Resources has a net margin of 17.25% compared to AquaVenture's net margin of -9.87%. Artesian Resources' return on equity of 7.57% beat AquaVenture's return on equity.
In the previous week, Artesian Resources had 4 more articles in the media than AquaVenture. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Artesian Resources and 0 mentions for AquaVenture. Artesian Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat AquaVenture's score of 0.00 indicating that Artesian Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Artesian Resources has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AquaVenture has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
57.4% of Artesian Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.4% of AquaVenture shares are held by institutional investors. 20.6% of Artesian Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 53.3% of AquaVenture shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Artesian Resources beats AquaVenture on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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