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GWRS vs. NEP, NNE, AMPS, XIFR, SMC, NGL, MNTK, PCYO, OPAL, and RGCO

Should you be buying Global Water Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Water Resources include Nextera Energy Partners (NEP), Nano Nuclear Energy (NNE), Altus Power (AMPS), XPLR Infrastructure (XIFR), Summit Midstream (SMC), NGL Energy Partners (NGL), Montauk Renewables (MNTK), Pure Cycle (PCYO), OPAL Fuels (OPAL), and RGC Resources (RGCO). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.

Global Water Resources vs.

Global Water Resources (NASDAQ:GWRS) and Nextera Energy Partners (NYSE:NEP) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.

Global Water Resources pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Nextera Energy Partners pays an annual dividend of $3.67 per share. Global Water Resources pays out 125.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Nextera Energy Partners pays out -3,670.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

27.9% of Global Water Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of Nextera Energy Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 54.9% of Global Water Resources shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Nextera Energy Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Global Water Resources has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nextera Energy Partners. Nextera Energy Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Water Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Global Water Resources$52.69M5.34$7.98M$0.2443.38
Nextera Energy Partners$1.23B0.00-$10M-$0.10N/A

Nextera Energy Partners has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Given Nextera Energy Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Nextera Energy Partners is more favorable than Global Water Resources.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Global Water Resources
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Nextera Energy Partners
2 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.00

Global Water Resources has a net margin of 12.52% compared to Nextera Energy Partners' net margin of -0.73%. Global Water Resources' return on equity of 14.23% beat Nextera Energy Partners' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Global Water Resources12.52% 14.23% 1.79%
Nextera Energy Partners -0.73%1.34%0.85%

Global Water Resources received 290 more outperform votes than Nextera Energy Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.46% of users gave Global Water Resources an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Nextera Energy Partners an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Global Water ResourcesOutperform Votes
290
65.46%
Underperform Votes
153
34.54%
Nextera Energy PartnersOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
10
100.00%

In the previous week, Nextera Energy Partners had 1 more articles in the media than Global Water Resources. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Nextera Energy Partners and 1 mentions for Global Water Resources. Global Water Resources' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Nextera Energy Partners' score of 0.63 indicating that Global Water Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Global Water Resources Very Positive
Nextera Energy Partners Positive

Global Water Resources has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nextera Energy Partners has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Global Water Resources beats Nextera Energy Partners on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GWRS vs. The Competition

MetricGlobal Water ResourcesWater supply IndustryUtilities SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$281.34M$4.87B$15.40B$7.57B
Dividend Yield3.05%2.58%5.92%4.32%
P/E Ratio38.5621.2215.2217.81
Price / Sales5.345.9321.4594.60
Price / Cash15.0313.5218.4334.64
Price / Book5.182.561.964.00
Net Income$7.98M$200.07M$664.08M$247.23M
7 Day Performance3.48%5.60%4.25%7.26%
1 Month Performance-7.88%-2.25%1.43%-6.26%
1 Year Performance-13.32%10.81%10.47%-0.18%

Global Water Resources Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GWRS
Global Water Resources
2.9466 of 5 stars
$10.41
+1.4%
N/A-15.8%$281.34M$52.69M38.5690Positive News
NEP
Nextera Energy Partners
1.2827 of 5 stars
N/A$10.00
+∞
N/A$983.47M$1.23B-105.15N/AUpcoming Earnings
NNE
Nano Nuclear Energy
2.0566 of 5 stars
$23.07
+7.6%
$58.00
+151.4%
N/A$855.27MN/A-56.27N/APositive News
AMPS
Altus Power
1.3974 of 5 stars
$4.96
-0.5%
$5.13
+3.4%
+18.5%$794.89M$196.27M22.5240Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
XIFR
XPLR Infrastructure
2.8434 of 5 stars
$8.29
-1.8%
$18.50
+123.2%
-67.6%$778.95M$1.23B-82.90N/AUpcoming Earnings
Negative News
SMC
Summit Midstream
N/A$26.57
-9.5%
N/AN/A$495.40M$429.62M-2.07244Gap Down
High Trading Volume
NGL
NGL Energy Partners
1.1025 of 5 stars
$3.35
-11.5%
N/A-48.7%$441.58M$5.92B-1.33840Positive News
High Trading Volume
MNTK
Montauk Renewables
1.9671 of 5 stars
$1.92
-1.5%
$4.00
+108.3%
-49.3%$273.47M$175.74M12.00130News Coverage
PCYO
Pure Cycle
0.5552 of 5 stars
$10.33
-1.1%
N/A+2.1%$248.72M$29.11M18.7840Earnings Report
OPAL
OPAL Fuels
2.9611 of 5 stars
$1.39
-5.1%
$5.70
+311.6%
-72.7%$239.37M$299.97M7.69270Gap Down
RGCO
RGC Resources
3.4574 of 5 stars
$22.10
+3.6%
N/A+9.1%$227.56M$87.51M18.89100News Coverage
Positive News
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This page (NASDAQ:GWRS) was last updated on 4/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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