Pure Cycle (PCYO) Competitors

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

Do analysts prefer NEP or PCYO?

Nextera Energy Partners presently has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Given Nextera Energy Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Nextera Energy Partners is more favorable than Pure Cycle.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nextera Energy Partners	2 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.00
Pure Cycle	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the MarketBeat Community favor NEP or PCYO?

Pure Cycle received 182 more outperform votes than Nextera Energy Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.66% of users gave Pure Cycle an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Nextera Energy Partners an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Nextera Energy Partners	Outperform Votes No Votes	Underperform Votes 10 100.00%
Pure Cycle	Outperform Votes 182 67.66%	Underperform Votes 87 32.34%

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, NEP or PCYO?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nextera Energy Partners	$1.23B	0.00	-$10M	-$0.10	N/A
Pure Cycle	$29.11M	8.28	$11.61M	$0.58	17.27

Does the media favor NEP or PCYO?

In the previous week, Pure Cycle had 6 more articles in the media than Nextera Energy Partners. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Pure Cycle and 2 mentions for Nextera Energy Partners. Pure Cycle's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Nextera Energy Partners' score of 0.63 indicating that Pure Cycle is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Nextera Energy Partners	0 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Pure Cycle	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do insiders & institutionals believe in NEP or PCYO?

66.0% of Nextera Energy Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.4% of Pure Cycle shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Nextera Energy Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.2% of Pure Cycle shares are owned 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.

Is NEP or PCYO more profitable?

Pure Cycle has a net margin of 46.32% compared to Nextera Energy Partners' net margin of -0.73%. Pure Cycle's return on equity of 10.54% beat Nextera Energy Partners' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nextera Energy Partners	-0.73%	1.34%	0.85%
Pure Cycle	46.32%	10.54%	9.36%

Which has more volatility and risk, NEP or PCYO?

Nextera Energy Partners has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pure Cycle has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pure Cycle beats Nextera Energy Partners on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.