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

CWT POWR Grades

• CWT scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 66.72% of US stocks.
• CWT's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 52 weeks.
• CWT ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 1st percentile.

CWT Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 322.55, California Water Service Group is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 91.47% of US stocks.
• CWT's went public 31.7 years ago, making it older than 84.07% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• The volatility of California Water Service Group's share price is greater than that of just 16.55% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to California Water Service Group are POR, UHT, AVA, AWR, and OGS.
• 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/sales ratio is 3.9; this is 34.48% higher than that of the median Utilities stock.
• CWT's price/earnings ratio has moved up 2.6 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, CWT's price/earnings ratio has gone up 2.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CWT.

CWT Growth Metrics

• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 79.9%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 30.16%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 79.46%.

CWT's revenue has moved up $96,273,000 over the prior 15 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
2021-09-30	806.735	200.418	113.119
2021-06-30	854.12	165.57	147.05
2021-03-31	816.481	143.836	114.106
2020-12-31	794.307	117.924	96.831
2020-09-30	782.033	137.115	92.67
2020-06-30	710.462	145.407	38.734

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.