PEIX vs. VGAS, ORGN, AMTX, GEVO, FF, PHX, KLXE, PROP, EPSN, and GIFI
Should you be buying Alto Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alto Ingredients include Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), Origin Materials (ORGN), Aemetis (AMTX), Gevo (GEVO), FutureFuel (FF), PHX Minerals (PHX), KLX Energy Services (KLXE), Prairie Operating (PROP), Epsilon Energy (EPSN), and Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Alto Ingredients (NASDAQ:PEIX) and Verde Clean Fuels (NASDAQ:VGAS) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.
29.5% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.6% of Verde Clean Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Alto Ingredients had 1 more articles in the media than Verde Clean Fuels. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Alto Ingredients and 0 mentions for Verde Clean Fuels. Verde Clean Fuels' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Alto Ingredients' score of 0.00 indicating that Verde Clean Fuels is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Verde Clean Fuels has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Alto Ingredients' net margin of -3.32%. Alto Ingredients' return on equity of -2.90% beat Verde Clean Fuels' return on equity.
Alto Ingredients has a beta of 3.35, indicating that its stock price is 235% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Verde Clean Fuels has a beta of -0.59, indicating that its stock price is 159% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Verde Clean Fuels has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alto Ingredients. Verde Clean Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alto Ingredients, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alto Ingredients received 359 more outperform votes than Verde Clean Fuels when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Alto Ingredients beats Verde Clean Fuels on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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