AFC vs. SUP, DIA, DWHT, IKA, PPS, XPP, LUCE, CWR, TFW, and JAR
Should you be buying AFC Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AFC Energy include Supreme (SUP), Dialight (DIA), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Ilika (IKA), Proton Motor Power Systems (PPS), XP Power (XPP), Luceco (LUCE), Ceres Power (CWR), FW Thorpe (TFW), and Jardine Matheson (JAR). 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 superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
In the previous week, Supreme had 76 more articles in the media than AFC Energy. MarketBeat recorded 78 mentions for Supreme and 2 mentions for AFC Energy. Supreme's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat AFC Energy's score of 0.50 indicating that AFC Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Supreme presently has a consensus price target of GBX 205, indicating a potential upside of 57.69%. AFC Energy has a consensus price target of GBX 4,000, indicating a potential upside of 17,959.51%. Given Supreme's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AFC Energy is more favorable than Supreme.
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.
22.0% of Supreme shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.5% of AFC Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 57.9% of Supreme shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of AFC Energy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Supreme has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AFC Energy has a beta of 2.42, indicating that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
Supreme beats AFC Energy on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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