Pure Cycle (PCYO) Competitors

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

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PCYO or NEP?

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
Pure Cycle	Outperform Votes 182 67.66%	Underperform Votes 87 32.34%
Nextera Energy Partners	Outperform Votes No Votes	Underperform Votes 8 100.00%

Is PCYO or NEP 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
Pure Cycle	46.32%	10.54%	9.36%
Nextera Energy Partners	-0.73%	1.34%	0.85%

Do analysts recommend PCYO or NEP?

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

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pure Cycle	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

Does the media prefer PCYO or NEP?

In the previous week, Nextera Energy Partners had 1 more articles in the media than Pure Cycle. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Nextera Energy Partners and 1 mentions for Pure Cycle. Pure Cycle's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Nextera Energy Partners' score of 0.63 indicating that Pure Cycle is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Pure Cycle	Positive
Nextera Energy Partners	Positive

Which has higher earnings and valuation, PCYO or NEP?

Pure Cycle has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Pure Cycle	$29.11M	8.83	$11.61M	$0.55	19.42
Nextera Energy Partners	$1.23B	0.00	-$10M	-$0.10	N/A

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of PCYO or NEP?

51.4% of Pure Cycle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.0% of Nextera Energy Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.2% of Pure Cycle shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Nextera Energy Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more risk & volatility, PCYO or NEP?

Pure Cycle has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nextera Energy Partners has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pure Cycle beats Nextera Energy Partners on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.