California Water Service Group (CWT): Price and Financial Metrics

CWT POWR Grades

• CWT scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 69.71% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CWT is in Momentum, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• CWT's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 1.27% of US stocks).

CWT Stock Summary

• CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP's stock had its IPO on March 26, 1990, making it an older stock than 85.21% of US equities in our set.
• CWT's current price/earnings ratio is 45.17, which is higher than 86.41% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP is higher than it is for about 81.68% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to CWT, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are NXST, UHT, NEWT, KORE, and BYD.
• Visit CWT's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.calwatergroup.com.

CWT Valuation Summary

• CWT's price/earnings ratio is 46.2; this is 127.59% higher than that of the median Utilities stock.
• Over the past 243 months, CWT's price/sales ratio has gone up 2.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CWT.

CWT Growth Metrics

The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 17.93%.
• The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 1071.03%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at -8.81%.

CWT's revenue has moved up $104,263,000 over the prior 33 months.

The table below shows CWT's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	818.82	252.401	79.945
2022-06-30	809.236	253.978	86.502
2022-03-31	816.165	255.932	105.243
2021-12-31	790.909	231.718	101.125
2021-09-30	806.735	200.418	113.119
2021-06-30	854.12	165.57	147.05

CWT's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• CWT has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 15.15% of graded US stocks.
• CWT's asset turnover comes in at 0.229 -- ranking 45th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• PCYO, LNG, and SRE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CWT.

The table below shows CWT's key quality metrics over time.