CWTCalifornia Water Service Group
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though cheap against its own history.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 20.7 vs a 26.6 median over 41 quarters (−22% vs median).
Sector median 22.4× across 56 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What CWT's price assumes
California Water Service Group trades at 20.7× earnings against 20.6× for the median Utilities - Regulated Water name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Utilities - Regulated Water median 20.6 · 1.00× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 2.85
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Price / book
- 1.57
Price / book · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- EV / sales
- 4.48
EV / sales
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 1.57
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 24.2
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 4.48
- Utilities median P/E86 names
- 19.8
- Utilities - Regulated Water median P/E10 names
- 20.6
- Market capitalisation
- $2.85B
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $46.91 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $59.15 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $73.66 |
| 52-week range | $41.67 – $52.42 |
| Today | $45.93 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Utilities, Regulated Water
Ranks #9 of 9 by RyuScore