LGO vs. SND, FTK, KLXE, GIFI, MVO, EPSN, NEOV, BATL, PHX, and SOL
Should you be buying Largo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Largo include Smart Sand (SND), Flotek Industries (FTK), KLX Energy Services (KLXE), Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI), MV Oil Trust (MVO), Epsilon Energy (EPSN), NeoVolta (NEOV), Battalion Oil (BATL), PHX Minerals (PHX), and Emeren Group (SOL). 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 better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Smart Sand received 414 more outperform votes than Largo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.28% of users gave Smart Sand an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Largo an outperform vote.
35.2% of Smart Sand shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.1% of Largo shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.3% of Smart Sand shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Largo shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Smart Sand currently has a consensus price target of $2.88, suggesting a potential upside of 30.09%. Largo has a consensus price target of $4.80, suggesting a potential upside of 196.30%. Given Smart Sand's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Largo is more favorable than Smart Sand.
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 beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Largo has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Smart Sand has a net margin of 2.71% compared to Smart Sand's net margin of -16.29%. Largo's return on equity of 3.31% beat Smart Sand's return on equity.
In the previous week, Smart Sand had 7 more articles in the media than Largo. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Smart Sand and 5 mentions for Largo. Smart Sand's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat Largo's score of 0.23 indicating that Largo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Smart Sand beats Largo on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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