SND vs. LGO, BATL, PED, PFIE, CRT, VIA, NEOV, SLNG, NINE, and FTK
Should you be buying Smart Sand stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smart Sand include Largo (LGO), Battalion Oil (BATL), PEDEVCO (PED), Profire Energy (PFIE), Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (CRT), Via Renewables (VIA), NeoVolta (NEOV), Stabilis Solutions (SLNG), Nine Energy Service (NINE), and Flotek Industries (FTK). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Smart Sand (NASDAQ:SND) and Largo (NYSE:LGO) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment and community ranking.
Smart Sand has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Largo has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Largo had 11 more articles in the media than Smart Sand. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Largo and 1 mentions for Smart Sand. Largo's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Smart Sand's score of 0.50 indicating that Largo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Smart Sand has higher revenue and earnings than Largo. Largo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smart Sand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Smart Sand has a net margin of 1.57% compared to Largo's net margin of -16.29%. Smart Sand's return on equity of 1.94% beat Largo's return on equity.
Smart Sand presently has a consensus price target of $2.75, suggesting a potential upside of 25.00%. Largo has a consensus price target of $4.70, suggesting a potential upside of 181.44%. Given Largo's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Largo is more favorable than Smart Sand.
35.2% of Smart Sand shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.1% of Largo shares are held by institutional investors. 30.3% of Smart Sand shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Largo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Smart Sand received 415 more outperform votes than Largo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.37% of users gave Smart Sand an outperform vote while only 48.84% of users gave Largo an outperform vote.
Summary
Smart Sand beats Largo on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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