FF vs. AMTX, GEVO, VGAS, ORGN, FREY, FET, RNGR, OIS, RGCO, and NC
Should you be buying FutureFuel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FutureFuel include Aemetis (AMTX), Gevo (GEVO), Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), Origin Materials (ORGN), FREYR Battery (FREY), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), Ranger Energy Services (RNGR), Oil States International (OIS), RGC Resources (RGCO), and NACCO Industries (NC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Aemetis (NASDAQ:AMTX) and FutureFuel (NYSE:FF) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Aemetis presently has a consensus target price of $10.30, indicating a potential upside of 164.44%. Given FutureFuel's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aemetis is more favorable than FutureFuel.
FutureFuel received 60 more outperform votes than Aemetis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.33% of users gave FutureFuel an outperform vote while only 60.70% of users gave Aemetis an outperform vote.
27.0% of Aemetis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.6% of FutureFuel shares are held by institutional investors. 14.3% of Aemetis shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 40.9% of FutureFuel 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.
Aemetis has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FutureFuel has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Aemetis and Aemetis both had 1 articles in the media. FutureFuel's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Aemetis' score of -0.50 indicating that Aemetis is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FutureFuel has a net margin of 10.15% compared to FutureFuel's net margin of -24.86%. Aemetis' return on equity of 12.41% beat FutureFuel's return on equity.
FutureFuel has higher revenue and earnings than Aemetis. Aemetis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FutureFuel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
FutureFuel beats Aemetis on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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