GNE vs. UTL, ARTNA, CWCO, CNSL, GWRS, YORW, CLNE, PCYO, BROG, and EDN Should you be buying Genie Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Genie Energy include Unitil (UTL), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), Consolidated Water (CWCO), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), Global Water Resources (GWRS), York Water (YORW), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), Pure Cycle (PCYO), Brooge Energy (BROG), and Empresa Distribuidora y Comercializadora Norte Sociedad Anónima (EDN). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.
Genie Energy (NYSE:GNE ) and Unitil (NYSE:UTL ) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Unitil has higher revenue and earnings than Genie Energy. Unitil is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genie Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Unitil has a consensus price target of $51.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.83%. Given Unitil's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Unitil is more favorable than Genie Energy.
Unitil has a net margin of 9.37% compared to Genie Energy's net margin of 2.99%. Genie Energy's return on equity of 24.06% beat Unitil's return on equity.
Unitil received 153 more outperform votes than Genie Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.79% of users gave Unitil an outperform vote while only 57.10% of users gave Genie Energy an outperform vote.
49.2% of Genie Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.8% of Unitil shares are held by institutional investors. 16.5% of Genie Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Unitil shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Genie Energy had 3 more articles in the media than Unitil. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Genie Energy and 1 mentions for Unitil. Unitil's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Genie Energy's score of 1.68 indicating that Unitil is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Genie Energy has a beta of 0.17, meaning that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unitil has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Genie Energy pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Unitil pays an annual dividend of $1.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Genie Energy pays out 60.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unitil pays out 56.7% 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. Unitil is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary Unitil beats Genie Energy on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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