Analyzing Two Rivers Water & Farming (OTCMKTS:TURV) and H2O America (NASDAQ:HTO)

Two Rivers Water & Farming (OTCMKTS:TURV) and H2O America (NASDAQ:HTO) are both utilities companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Two Rivers Water & Farming and H2O America”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Two Rivers Water & Farming	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
H2O America	$800.59 million	3.20	$102.58 million	$2.83	21.64

H2O America has higher revenue and earnings than Two Rivers Water & Farming.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

84.3% of H2O America shares are held by institutional investors. 19.6% of Two Rivers Water & Farming shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of H2O America shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Two Rivers Water & Farming and H2O America, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Two Rivers Water & Farming	0	0	0	0	0.00
H2O America	0	4	5	0	2.56

H2O America has a consensus price target of $65.67, suggesting a potential upside of 7.23%. Given H2O America’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe H2O America is more favorable than Two Rivers Water & Farming.

Profitability

This table compares Two Rivers Water & Farming and H2O America’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Two Rivers Water & Farming	N/A	N/A	N/A
H2O America	12.91%	6.65%	2.14%

Summary

H2O America beats Two Rivers Water & Farming on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Two Rivers Water & Farming

Two Rivers Water & Farming Company owns a portfolio of water rights in the Arkansas River Basin in southeastern Colorado. It operates through Greenhouse and Water segments. As of December 31, 2018, the company managed a total of 6,265 acres of land. It also develops and leases greenhouses and warehouses. The company was formerly known as Two Rivers Water Company and changed its name to Two Rivers Water & Farming Company in December 2012. Two Rivers Water & Farming Company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Aurora, Colorado.

About H2O America

SJW Group, through its subsidiaries, provides water utility and other related services in the United States. It operates in Water Utility Services and Real Estate Services segments. The company engages in the production, purchase, storage, purification, distribution, wholesale, and retail sale of water and wastewater services; and supplies groundwater from wells, surface water from watershed run-off and diversion, reclaimed water, and imported water purchased from the Santa Clara Valley Water District. It also offers non-tariffed services, including water system operations, maintenance agreements, and antenna site leases; contracted services, sewer operations, and other water related services to water utilities; and a Linebacker protection plan for public drinking water customers in Connecticut and Maine. In addition, the company provides water service to approximately 232,400 connections that serve approximately one million people residing in portions of the cities of San Jose and Cupertino and in the cities of Campbell, Monte Sereno, Saratoga, and the Town of Los Gatos; adjacent unincorporated territories in the County of Santa Clara in the State of California; water service to approximately 141,000 service connections, which serve approximately 461,000 people in 81 municipalities with a service area of approximately 272 square miles in Connecticut and Maine and approximately 3,000 wastewater connections in Southbury, Connecticut; approximately 28,000 service connections that serve approximately 83,000 people in a service area comprising approximately 271 square miles in the region between San Antonio and Austin, Texas; and approximately 950 wastewater connections. Further, it owns undeveloped land in California and Tennessee; commercial and warehouse properties in Tennessee; and commercial properties and parcels of land in Connecticut. The company was formerly known as SJW Corp. and changed its name to SJW Group in November 2016. SJW Group was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.