Thursday, December 20, 2012

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Connecticut Water Service, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTWS) achieved its new price of $28.15 where it was opened at $27.85 down -0.18 points or -0.65% by closing at $27.63. CTWS transacted shares during the day were over 44,557 shares however it has an average volume of 35,029 shares.

CTWS has a market capitalization $240.99 million and an enterprise value at $377.99 million. Trailing twelve months price to sales ratio of the stock was 3.46 while price to book ratio in most recent quarter was 2.10. In profitability ratios, net profit margin in past twelve months appeared at 17.35% whereas operating profit margin for the same period at 33.38%.

The company made a return on asset of 3.43% in past twelve months and return on equity of 10.74% for similar period. In the period of trailing 12 months it generated revenue amounted to $70.05 million gaining $8.17 revenue per share. Its year over year, quarterly growth of revenue was 9.20% holding 50.10% quarterly earnings growth.

According to preceding quarter balance sheet results, the company had $824.00K cash in hand making cash per share at 0.09. The total of $137.81 million debt was there putting a total debt to equity ratio 118.23. Moreover its current ratio according to same quarter results was 0.59 and book value per share was 13.27.

Looking at the trading information, the stock price history displayed that its S&P500 52 Week Change illustrated 11.59% where the stock current price exhibited up beat from its 50 day moving average price $26.18 and remained above from its 200 Day Moving Average price $25.35.

CTWS holds 8.72 million outstanding shares with 8.63 million floating shares where insider possessed 0.91% and institutions kept 33.20%.

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