AFC vs. SUP, DIA, IKA, PPS, DWHT, LUCE, XPP, CWR, TFW, and ECEL
Should you be buying AFC Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AFC Energy include Supreme (SUP), Dialight (DIA), Ilika (IKA), Proton Motor Power Systems (PPS), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Luceco (LUCE), XP Power (XPP), Ceres Power (CWR), FW Thorpe (TFW), and Eurocell (ECEL). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Supreme (LON:SUP) and AFC Energy (LON:AFC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
22.0% of Supreme shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.5% of AFC Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 57.9% of Supreme shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of AFC Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Supreme currently has a consensus price target of GBX 205, suggesting a potential upside of 55.01%. Given Supreme's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AFC Energy is more favorable than Supreme.
AFC Energy received 160 more outperform votes than Supreme when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.50% of users gave Supreme an outperform vote while only 64.68% of users gave AFC Energy an outperform vote.
Supreme has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AFC Energy has a beta of 2.42, meaning that its stock price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Supreme has a net margin of 9.16% compared to Supreme's net margin of 0.00%. AFC Energy's return on equity of 45.59% beat Supreme's return on equity.
In the previous week, Supreme had 68 more articles in the media than AFC Energy. MarketBeat recorded 71 mentions for Supreme and 3 mentions for AFC Energy. AFC Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Supreme's score of 0.40 indicating that Supreme is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Supreme has higher revenue and earnings than AFC Energy. AFC Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Supreme, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Supreme beats AFC Energy on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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