GEVO vs. VGAS, AMTX, PEIX, ORGN, FF, PROP, TUSK, DTI, PNRG, and HNRG
Should you be buying Gevo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gevo include Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), Aemetis (AMTX), Alto Ingredients (PEIX), Origin Materials (ORGN), FutureFuel (FF), Prairie Operating (PROP), Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK), Drilling Tools International (DTI), PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG), and Hallador Energy (HNRG). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Verde Clean Fuels (NASDAQ:VGAS) and Gevo (NASDAQ:GEVO) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Gevo has a consensus price target of $4.76, suggesting a potential upside of 622.03%. Given Verde Clean Fuels' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Gevo is more favorable than Verde Clean Fuels.
In the previous week, Gevo had 14 more articles in the media than Verde Clean Fuels. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Gevo and 4 mentions for Verde Clean Fuels. Gevo's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Verde Clean Fuels' score of 0.16 indicating that Verde Clean Fuels is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gevo received 381 more outperform votes than Verde Clean Fuels when rated by MarketBeat users.
15.6% of Verde Clean Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Gevo shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Gevo shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Verde Clean Fuels has a beta of -0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 159% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gevo has a beta of 2.88, suggesting that its stock price is 188% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Verde Clean Fuels has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Verde Clean Fuels' net margin of -393.88%. Gevo's return on equity of -8.59% beat Verde Clean Fuels' return on equity.
Verde Clean Fuels has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gevo. Verde Clean Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gevo, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Gevo beats Verde Clean Fuels on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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