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Cadiz (CDZI) Competitors

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$2.73 -0.23 (-7.77%)
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CDZI vs. YORW, CWCO, ARTNA, AWK, AWR, CWT, SJW, MSEX, GWRS, and PCYO

Should you be buying Cadiz stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cadiz include York Water (YORW), Consolidated Water (CWCO), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), American Water Works (AWK), American States Water (AWR), California Water Service Group (CWT), SJW Group (SJW), Middlesex Water (MSEX), Global Water Resources (GWRS), and Pure Cycle (PCYO). These companies are all part of the "water supply" industry.

Cadiz vs.

Cadiz (NASDAQ:CDZI) and York Water (NASDAQ:YORW) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and risk.

79.8% of Cadiz shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of York Water shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Cadiz shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of York Water shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Cadiz has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, York Water has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, York Water had 3 more articles in the media than Cadiz. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for York Water and 4 mentions for Cadiz. York Water's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Cadiz's score of -1.81 indicating that York Water is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Cadiz
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Negative
York Water
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

York Water has a net margin of 28.57% compared to Cadiz's net margin of -528.15%. York Water's return on equity of 9.44% beat Cadiz's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cadiz-528.15% -93.78% -25.26%
York Water 28.57%9.44%3.50%

York Water has higher revenue and earnings than Cadiz. Cadiz is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than York Water, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cadiz$5.54M40.44-$31.45M-$0.51-5.78
York Water$74.96M6.60$23.76M$1.4224.22

Cadiz received 4 more outperform votes than York Water when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.88% of users gave Cadiz an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave York Water an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
CadizOutperform Votes
212
66.88%
Underperform Votes
105
33.12%
York WaterOutperform Votes
208
57.14%
Underperform Votes
156
42.86%

Summary

York Water beats Cadiz on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CDZI vs. The Competition

MetricCadizWater supply IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$224.09M$4.79B$16.96B$7.92B
Dividend YieldN/A2.55%2.87%4.04%
P/E Ratio-5.7820.9816.3018.81
Price / Sales40.447.252.5888.69
Price / CashN/A13.5216.3934.64
Price / Book4.922.586.704.18
Net Income-$31.45M$200.07M$731.75M$247.10M
7 Day Performance-8.10%0.93%-1.21%-2.72%
1 Month Performance-27.87%-1.79%-0.97%-3.90%
1 Year Performance13.46%6.05%0.46%-0.11%

Cadiz Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CDZI
Cadiz
0.7486 of 5 stars
$2.73
-7.8%
N/A+9.3%$223.27M$9.61M-5.3510Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
Gap Down
YORW
York Water
3.2081 of 5 stars
$33.42
-0.1%
N/A-2.5%$480.88M$74.96M22.58110Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
CWCO
Consolidated Water
3.5473 of 5 stars
$23.77
-10.3%
N/A-7.0%$377.35M$133.97M14.67200Gap Down
High Trading Volume
ARTNA
Artesian Resources
3.188 of 5 stars
$30.93
+0.7%
N/A-8.8%$318.52M$105.65M15.86240
AWK
American Water Works
4.0033 of 5 stars
$139.71
-1.0%
$141.86
+1.5%
+22.3%$27.24B$4.68B25.926,500Positive News
AWR
American States Water
3.3669 of 5 stars
$74.72
-1.0%
$74.00
-1.0%
+11.1%$2.80B$595.46M23.57810Positive News
CWT
California Water Service Group
4.6311 of 5 stars
$45.91
-0.4%
$53.25
+16.0%
+5.5%$2.73B$1.04B13.271,266Positive News
SJW
SJW Group
2.1487 of 5 stars
$51.47
+0.1%
$56.00
+8.8%
-1.7%$1.73B$748.44M18.65760Positive News
MSEX
Middlesex Water
2.1914 of 5 stars
$60.49
+0.9%
$58.50
-3.3%
+28.7%$1.08B$191.88M26.30350High Trading Volume
GWRS
Global Water Resources
2.3899 of 5 stars
$10.72
-3.7%
N/A-18.5%$259.70M$52.69M39.7090Dividend Announcement
Insider Trade
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
PCYO
Pure Cycle
0.5103 of 5 stars
$10.72
+0.1%
N/A+12.5%$258.11M$29.11M19.4940Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
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This page (NASDAQ:CDZI) was last updated on 4/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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