SND vs. LGO, BATL, KLXE, NEOV, CSLR, PED, MVO, CRT, GIFI, and VIA
Should you be buying Smart Sand stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smart Sand include Largo (LGO), Battalion Oil (BATL), KLX Energy Services (KLXE), NeoVolta (NEOV), Complete Solaria (CSLR), PEDEVCO (PED), MV Oil Trust (MVO), Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (CRT), Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI), and Via Renewables (VIA). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Largo (NYSE:LGO) and Smart Sand (NASDAQ:SND) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Largo has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smart Sand has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Largo presently has a consensus price target of $4.80, indicating a potential upside of 137.62%. Smart Sand has a consensus price target of $2.88, indicating a potential upside of 28.92%. Given Smart Sand's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Largo is more favorable than Smart Sand.
64.1% of Largo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Smart Sand shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Largo shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.3% of Smart Sand shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Smart Sand had 1 more articles in the media than Largo. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Smart Sand and 1 mentions for Largo. Largo's average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat Smart Sand's score of -0.39 indicating that Smart Sand is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Smart Sand has a net margin of 2.71% compared to Smart Sand's net margin of -24.05%. Largo's return on equity of 3.31% beat Smart Sand's return on equity.
Smart Sand received 414 more outperform votes than Largo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.28% of users gave Smart Sand an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Largo an outperform vote.
Smart Sand has higher revenue and earnings than Largo. Largo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smart Sand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Smart Sand beats Largo on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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