Both in Electric, Gas & Water Utilities

H2O America vs American States Water

Over the past year HTO returned +32.4% and AWR returned +22.2%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.73.

HTO +32.4% AWR +22.2%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricHTOAWR
Price$61.19$87.59
Market cap$2.96B$3.47B
Today+2.43%+1.47%
1 month+1.8%+5.8%
6 months+6.8%+15.1%
Year to date+24.9%+20.8%
1 year+32.6%+22.4%
Revenue growth (YoY)+4.0%+11.2%
Gross margin78.1%76.3%
Net margin17.2%23.9%
P/E (TTM)28.2×24.3×
Price / sales3.5×5.0×
Net cash-$1.54B-$824.6M
Dividend yield2.88%2.49%
Volatility (60d)24.8%17.8%
Short % of float5.3%2.4%
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Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).