AMTX vs. GEVO, VGAS, ORGN, FF, DTI, PROP, TUSK, PNRG, HNRG, and NRGV
Should you be buying Aemetis stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aemetis include Gevo (GEVO), Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), Origin Materials (ORGN), FutureFuel (FF), Drilling Tools International (DTI), Prairie Operating (PROP), Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), Hallador Energy (HNRG), and Energy Vault (NRGV). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Aemetis (NASDAQ:AMTX) and Gevo (NASDAQ:GEVO) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Aemetis has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gevo has a beta of 2.88, meaning that its stock price is 188% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aemetis has a net margin of -24.86% compared to Gevo's net margin of -384.97%. Aemetis' return on equity of 0.00% beat Gevo's return on equity.
Gevo received 208 more outperform votes than Aemetis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.80% of users gave Gevo an outperform vote while only 60.70% of users gave Aemetis an outperform vote.
Aemetis currently has a consensus price target of $10.30, suggesting a potential upside of 150.61%. Gevo has a consensus price target of $4.76, suggesting a potential upside of 622.03%. Given Gevo's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gevo is more favorable than Aemetis.
In the previous week, Gevo had 14 more articles in the media than Aemetis. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Gevo and 2 mentions for Aemetis. Aemetis' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Gevo's score of 0.15 indicating that Aemetis is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aemetis has higher revenue and earnings than Gevo. Aemetis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gevo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
27.0% of Aemetis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Gevo shares are held by institutional investors. 14.3% of Aemetis shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Gevo shares are held by 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.
Summary
Gevo beats Aemetis on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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