Both in Electric, Gas & Water Utilities

American States Water vs Otter Tail

Over the past year AWR returned +18.8% and OTTR returned +2.2%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.33.

AWR +18.8% OTTR +2.2%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricAWROTTR
Price$88.61$83.82
Market cap$3.51B$3.52B
Today+2.00%+0.49%
1 month+8.6%−6.0%
6 months+16.8%−5.7%
Year to date+22.3%+3.7%
1 year+23.6%+7.5%
Revenue growth (YoY)+11.2%+0.4%
Gross margin76.3%60.6%
Net margin23.9%−2.3%
P/E (TTM)24.5×18.0×
Price / sales5.0×2.7×
Net cash-$824.6M-$933.0M
Dividend yield2.46%2.76%
Volatility (60d)18.1%24.0%
Short % of float2.4%12.6%
Next earnings——

Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).