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 64.96% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CWT is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 51 weeks.
• CWT's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 15.99% 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 84.06% of US equities in our set.
• Over the past twelve months, CWT has reported earnings growth of 127.67%, putting it ahead of 83.51% of US stocks in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, CWT is more volatile than only 10.16% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to California Water Service Group, a group of peers worth examining would be TIGO, DNB, NNBR, YORW, and ADT.
• 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

• The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at 5.45%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 14.88%.
• Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 41.85%.

CWT's revenue has moved up $140,111,000 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
2021-06-30	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
2020-03-31	714.009	152.72	50.449

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 15.91% of graded US stocks.
• CWT's asset turnover comes in at 0.245 -- ranking 39th of 105 Utilities stocks.
• PNM, SRE, and XEL are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CWT.

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