SPCE vs. YELL, GHM, SLDP, ESEA, GASS, QUAD, PFMT, PESI, MNTX, and NVRI
Should you be buying Virgin Galactic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virgin Galactic include Yellow (YELL), Graham (GHM), Solid Power (SLDP), Euroseas (ESEA), StealthGas (GASS), Quad/Graphics (QUAD), Performant Financial (PFMT), Perma-Fix Environmental Services (PESI), Manitex International (MNTX), and Enviri (NVRI).
Yellow (NASDAQ:YELL) and Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Virgin Galactic has a consensus target price of $2.26, suggesting a potential upside of 113.61%. Given Yellow's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Virgin Galactic is more favorable than Yellow.
Yellow has a net margin of -1.65% compared to Yellow's net margin of -5,301.61%. Virgin Galactic's return on equity of -6.10% beat Yellow's return on equity.
In the previous week, Virgin Galactic had 6 more articles in the media than Yellow. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Virgin Galactic and 3 mentions for Yellow. Virgin Galactic's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Yellow's score of -0.06 indicating that Yellow is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Yellow has higher revenue and earnings than Virgin Galactic. Yellow is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virgin Galactic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
35.7% of Yellow shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.6% of Virgin Galactic shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Yellow shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Virgin Galactic shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Virgin Galactic received 137 more outperform votes than Yellow when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.89% of users gave Virgin Galactic an outperform vote while only 18.18% of users gave Yellow an outperform vote.
Yellow has a beta of 2.79, indicating that its stock price is 179% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virgin Galactic has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Virgin Galactic beats Yellow on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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