Pure Cycle Corp. (PCYO) vs its competitors

Pure Cycle Corp. against utilities regulated water

Pure Cycle Corp. is the 11th largest of 12 graded companies. Showing 5 of them, including PCYO itself.

Company	Grade	Market value	Revenue	Profit margin	Free cash flow	Price to earnings
American Water Works Company, Inc.AWK	C	$25.8B	$5.3B	21.4%	-$1B	22.50
Essential Utilities, Inc.WTRG	D	$11.1B	$2.6B	21.6%	-$2.1B	20.02
Companhia DE Saneamento Basico DO Estado DE SAO Paulo-SabespSBS	A+	$3.6B	$7.3B	22.2%	$1.4B	1.93
American States Water Co.AWR	A	$3.2B	$697.5M	20.5%	$20.7M	22.44
Pure Cycle CorporationPCYO	B+	$265M	$33.7M	43.7%	$6.5M	18.02

7 more utilities regulated water companies

Graded on the same five checks, from their own SEC filings.

A blank price-to-earnings means a loss, not a missing figure — the ratio has no meaning when there are no earnings to divide by, and printing a negative one would make the least profitable company look the cheapest.

Grades are trailing twelve months from each company’s own SEC filings, so they move only when a company files. Every column is computed by the same code that graded Pure Cycle Corp. on the overview — nothing here comes from a data vendor’s own ratios.

Industry membership is not a judgement about how similar two businesses are. It groups companies by what they are classified as, which is a starting point for comparison rather than a claim that they compete.