FTCI vs. BEEM, STRT, BW, EOSE, CAN, MX, QUIK, MAXN, AXTI, and MRAM
Should you be buying FTC Solar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FTC Solar include Beam Global (BEEM), Strattec Security (STRT), Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (BW), Eos Energy Enterprises (EOSE), Canaan (CAN), Magnachip Semiconductor (MX), QuickLogic (QUIK), Maxeon Solar Technologies (MAXN), AXT (AXTI), and Everspin Technologies (MRAM).
FTC Solar (NASDAQ:FTCI) and Beam Global (NASDAQ:BEEM) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
FTC Solar presently has a consensus target price of $1.49, indicating a potential upside of 199.71%. Beam Global has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 184.36%. Given FTC Solar's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FTC Solar is more favorable than Beam Global.
Beam Global has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FTC Solar. Beam Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FTC Solar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
FTC Solar has a beta of 1.62, indicating that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beam Global has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Beam Global has a net margin of -22.16% compared to FTC Solar's net margin of -47.92%. Beam Global's return on equity of -30.53% beat FTC Solar's return on equity.
In the previous week, Beam Global had 17 more articles in the media than FTC Solar. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Beam Global and 5 mentions for FTC Solar. FTC Solar's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Beam Global's score of 0.49 indicating that FTC Solar is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FTC Solar received 3 more outperform votes than Beam Global when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.49% of users gave Beam Global an outperform vote while only 44.07% of users gave FTC Solar an outperform vote.
45.4% of FTC Solar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.6% of Beam Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.1% of FTC Solar shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Beam Global shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
FTC Solar beats Beam Global on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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