YORW vs. SJW, MSEX, CWCO, CDZI, ARTNA, AWK, AWR, CWT, GWRS, and PCYO
Should you be buying York Water stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of York Water include SJW Group (SJW), Middlesex Water (MSEX), Consolidated Water (CWCO), Cadiz (CDZI), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), American Water Works (AWK), American States Water (AWR), California Water Service Group (CWT), Global Water Resources (GWRS), and Pure Cycle (PCYO). These companies are all part of the "water supply" industry.
York Water vs.
York Water (NASDAQ:YORW) and SJW Group (NYSE:SJW) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
York Water pays an annual dividend of $0.87 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. SJW Group pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. York Water pays out 58.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SJW Group pays out 58.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. York Water has raised its dividend for 27 consecutive years.
49.9% of York Water shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of SJW Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of York Water shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of SJW Group shares are held by 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.
York Water has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SJW Group has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SJW Group received 183 more outperform votes than York Water when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.00% of users gave SJW Group an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave York Water an outperform vote.
SJW Group has a consensus price target of $56.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.04%. Given SJW Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SJW Group is more favorable than York Water.
York Water has a net margin of 28.57% compared to SJW Group's net margin of 12.47%. York Water's return on equity of 9.44% beat SJW Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, SJW Group had 29 more articles in the media than York Water. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for SJW Group and 4 mentions for York Water. York Water's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat SJW Group's score of 0.68 indicating that York Water is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SJW Group has higher revenue and earnings than York Water. SJW Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than York Water, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SJW Group beats York Water on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:YORW) was last updated on 3/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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