GEVO vs. FF, PEIX, GPP, AMRS, CLNE, MPC, PSX, VLO, PBF, and CVI
Should you be buying Gevo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gevo include FutureFuel (FF), Alto Ingredients (PEIX), Green Plains Partners (GPP), Amyris (AMRS), Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), PBF Energy (PBF), and CVR Energy (CVI).
FutureFuel (NYSE:FF) and Gevo (NASDAQ:GEVO) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
44.6% of FutureFuel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Gevo shares are held by institutional investors. 40.9% of FutureFuel shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Gevo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
FutureFuel has a net margin of 5.86% compared to FutureFuel's net margin of -393.88%. Gevo's return on equity of 7.46% beat FutureFuel's return on equity.
FutureFuel presently has a consensus price target of $0.80, indicating a potential downside of 82.87%. Gevo has a consensus price target of $4.76, indicating a potential upside of 564.13%. Given FutureFuel's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Gevo is more favorable than FutureFuel.
Gevo received 147 more outperform votes than FutureFuel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.22% of users gave FutureFuel an outperform vote while only 65.80% of users gave Gevo an outperform vote.
FutureFuel has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gevo has a beta of 2.88, suggesting that its share price is 188% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FutureFuel has higher revenue and earnings than Gevo. Gevo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FutureFuel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Gevo had 2 more articles in the media than FutureFuel. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Gevo and 1 mentions for FutureFuel. FutureFuel's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Gevo's score of 0.00 indicating that Gevo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
FutureFuel beats Gevo on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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