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York Water (YORW) Competitors

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$35.50 -0.27 (-0.75%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

YORW vs. WAAS, SJW, MSEX, CWCO, ARTNA, CDZI, AWK, AWR, CWT, and PCYO

Should you be buying York Water stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of York Water include AquaVenture (WAAS), SJW Group (SJW), Middlesex Water (MSEX), Consolidated Water (CWCO), Artesian Resources (ARTNA), Cadiz (CDZI), American Water Works (AWK), American States Water (AWR), California Water Service Group (CWT), and Pure Cycle (PCYO).

York Water vs.

AquaVenture (NYSE:WAAS) and York Water (NASDAQ:YORW) are both small-cap utilities companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.

48.4% of AquaVenture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of York Water shares are held by institutional investors. 53.3% of AquaVenture 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, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

York Water has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AquaVenture. AquaVenture 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
AquaVenture$203.49M4.25-$20.08M-$0.48-56.31
York Water$71.03M7.18$23.76M$1.4823.99

AquaVenture has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, York Water has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.

AquaVenture received 17 more outperform votes than York Water when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.77% of users gave AquaVenture an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave York Water an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AquaVentureOutperform Votes
225
67.77%
Underperform Votes
107
32.23%
York WaterOutperform Votes
208
57.14%
Underperform Votes
156
42.86%

York Water has a net margin of 28.57% compared to AquaVenture's net margin of -9.87%. York Water's return on equity of 9.44% beat AquaVenture's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
AquaVenture-9.87% -4.61% -2.23%
York Water 28.57%9.44%3.50%

In the previous week, York Water had 1 more articles in the media than AquaVenture. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for York Water and 0 mentions for AquaVenture. York Water's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat AquaVenture's score of 0.00 indicating that York Water is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
AquaVenture Neutral
York Water Positive

Summary

York Water beats AquaVenture on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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YORW vs. The Competition

MetricYork WaterWater supply IndustryUtilities SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$514.16M$4.66B$12.22B$8.81B
Dividend Yield2.36%2.38%4.05%4.06%
P/E Ratio23.9921.86100.8217.77
Price / Sales7.1813.8131.8775.18
Price / Cash14.4315.0218.5932.53
Price / Book2.232.832.334.68
Net Income$23.76M$192.27M$616.62M$226.08M
7 Day Performance0.25%1.61%0.03%-1.04%
1 Month Performance-5.18%0.42%-1.57%1.04%
1 Year Performance-4.60%3.26%9.88%26.28%

York Water Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
YORW
York Water
4.1254 of 5 stars
$35.50
-0.8%
N/A-4.8%$514.16M$71.03M23.99130
WAAS
AquaVenture
N/A$27.03
flat
N/A+0.0%$864.15M$203.49M-56.31665High Trading Volume
SJW
SJW Group
3.4057 of 5 stars
$55.00
-0.3%
$63.00
+14.5%
-14.8%$1.80B$670.36M19.77760
MSEX
Middlesex Water
1.7256 of 5 stars
$65.69
-0.6%
$61.00
-7.1%
+3.4%$1.18B$166.27M28.56350
CWCO
Consolidated Water
2.7756 of 5 stars
$26.35
+0.7%
N/A-23.0%$414.24M$158.81M0.00293Analyst Revision
ARTNA
Artesian Resources
4.2241 of 5 stars
$34.04
-0.8%
N/A-18.5%$350.61M$98.86M17.46251Positive News
CDZI
Cadiz
1.3137 of 5 stars
$3.15
-2.8%
N/A+5.0%$243.60M$1.99M0.0010Analyst Revision
AWK
American Water Works
4.8185 of 5 stars
$137.89
-0.2%
$142.29
+3.2%
+5.5%$26.87B$4.23B27.316,500Analyst Upgrade
AWR
American States Water
4.562 of 5 stars
$84.36
-1.0%
$87.00
+3.1%
+6.2%$3.19B$595.70M28.40810Short Interest ↓
CWT
California Water Service Group
4.383 of 5 stars
$51.08
-0.8%
$53.67
+5.1%
+1.4%$3.04B$794.63M14.761,266Analyst Revision
PCYO
Pure Cycle
1.0495 of 5 stars
$13.10
-1.2%
N/A+30.5%$319.21M$28.75M27.2940Analyst Upgrade

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This page (NASDAQ:YORW) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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