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B Communications (BCOM) Competitors

BCOM vs. CLNE, SHEN, CNSL, YORW, CWCO, GNE, ARTNA, GWRS, PCYO, and BROG

Should you be buying B Communications stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B Communications include Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHEN), Consolidated Communications (CNSL), York Water (YORW), Consolidated Water (CWCO), Genie Energy (GNE), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), Global Water Resources (GWRS), Pure Cycle (PCYO), and Brooge Energy (BROG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" sector.

B Communications vs.

B Communications (NASDAQ:BCOM) and Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ:CLNE) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Clean Energy Fuels has a consensus price target of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 50.60%. Given Clean Energy Fuels' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Clean Energy Fuels is more favorable than B Communications.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
B Communications
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Clean Energy Fuels
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.33

0.9% of B Communications shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of Clean Energy Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Clean Energy Fuels shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Clean Energy Fuels had 5 more articles in the media than B Communications. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Clean Energy Fuels and 0 mentions for B Communications. Clean Energy Fuels' average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat B Communications' score of 0.00 indicating that Clean Energy Fuels is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
B Communications Neutral
Clean Energy Fuels Positive

B Communications has a beta of 2.08, suggesting that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clean Energy Fuels has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Clean Energy Fuels has lower revenue, but higher earnings than B Communications.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
B Communications$2.58B0.07-$247MN/AN/A
Clean Energy Fuels$425.16M1.74-$99.50M-$0.31-10.71

Clean Energy Fuels received 212 more outperform votes than B Communications when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.84% of users gave B Communications an outperform vote while only 53.26% of users gave Clean Energy Fuels an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
B CommunicationsOutperform Votes
172
55.84%
Underperform Votes
136
44.16%
Clean Energy FuelsOutperform Votes
384
53.26%
Underperform Votes
337
46.74%

B Communications has a net margin of 5.64% compared to Clean Energy Fuels' net margin of -17.32%. Clean Energy Fuels' return on equity of -7.59% beat B Communications' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
B Communications5.64% -461.79% 3.08%
Clean Energy Fuels -17.32%-7.59%-4.45%

Summary

Clean Energy Fuels beats B Communications on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BCOM vs. The Competition

MetricB CommunicationsCommunication Services IndustryUtilities SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$186.38M$2.76B$14.31B$9.14B
Dividend Yield7.31%N/A4.73%3.98%
P/E Ratio1.66N/A93.0017.66
Price / Sales0.0722.1724.7481.09
Price / Cash0.23N/A18.6737.71
Price / Book-3.217.652.334.73
Net Income-$247M-$112.63M$639.21M$225.42M

B Communications Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BCOM
B Communications
N/A$5.00
flat
N/AN/A$186.38M$2.58B1.6610,212
CLNE
Clean Energy Fuels
3.8416 of 5 stars
$3.17
+0.5%
$5.00
+58.0%
+3.5%$707.25M$425.16M-10.21500Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
Positive News
SHEN
Shenandoah Telecommunications
3.6751 of 5 stars
$11.25
-2.3%
$26.00
+131.1%
-48.5%$614.25M$287.38M2.89840News Coverage
CNSL
Consolidated Communications
N/A$4.72
+0.2%
N/A+8.3%$559.18M$1.11B-2.303,180High Trading Volume
YORW
York Water
4.3741 of 5 stars
$31.33
+3.7%
N/A-13.9%$450.34M$74.19M21.17110Dividend Announcement
CWCO
Consolidated Water
3.0809 of 5 stars
$26.62
+3.3%
N/A-21.3%$421.66M$180.21M0.00200News Coverage
Positive News
GNE
Genie Energy
1.4397 of 5 stars
$14.08
-0.9%
N/A-26.5%$382.84M$428.71M100.54190Short Interest ↓
ARTNA
Artesian Resources
3.6974 of 5 stars
$30.73
+2.5%
N/A-16.5%$316.52M$98.86M15.76240Dividend Increase
Positive News
GWRS
Global Water Resources
3.8693 of 5 stars
$12.15
+1.1%
N/A-6.0%$294.27M$53.03M45.0090Short Interest ↓
Positive News
PCYO
Pure Cycle
2.6154 of 5 stars
$11.28
+1.1%
N/A+11.8%$271.62M$28.75M20.5140Positive News
BROG
Brooge Energy
N/A$1.07
+1.9%
N/A-49.3%$94.20M$81.54M0.0023Short Interest ↓
News Coverage

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