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AFC Energy (AFC) Competitors

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GBX 10.04 -0.06 (-0.59%)
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AFC vs. TFW, LUCE, XPP, SUP, CWR, DWHA, DWHT, IKA, DIA, and EAAS

Should you be buying AFC Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AFC Energy include FW Thorpe (TFW), Luceco (LUCE), XP Power (XPP), Supreme (SUP), Ceres Power (CWR), Dewhurst Group (DWHA), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Ilika (IKA), Dialight (DIA), and eEnergy Group (EAAS). These companies are all part of the "electrical equipment & parts" industry.

AFC Energy vs.

AFC Energy (LON:AFC) and FW Thorpe (LON:TFW) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and dividends.

In the previous week, AFC Energy had 1 more articles in the media than FW Thorpe. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for AFC Energy and 0 mentions for FW Thorpe. AFC Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat FW Thorpe's score of 0.00 indicating that AFC Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
AFC Energy Positive
FW Thorpe Neutral

AFC Energy received 126 more outperform votes than FW Thorpe when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.59% of users gave FW Thorpe an outperform vote while only 64.68% of users gave AFC Energy an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AFC EnergyOutperform Votes
174
64.68%
Underperform Votes
95
35.32%
FW ThorpeOutperform Votes
48
70.59%
Underperform Votes
20
29.41%

FW Thorpe has a net margin of 13.83% compared to AFC Energy's net margin of -4,502.53%. FW Thorpe's return on equity of 14.28% beat AFC Energy's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
AFC Energy-4,502.53% -71.96% -35.77%
FW Thorpe 13.83%14.28%8.02%

17.3% of AFC Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.9% of FW Thorpe shares are held by institutional investors. 16.2% of AFC Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 70.8% of FW Thorpe shares are held by company 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.

FW Thorpe has higher revenue and earnings than AFC Energy. AFC Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FW Thorpe, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
AFC Energy£497.29K172.76-£22.39M-£2.62-3.84
FW Thorpe£176.56M1.98£24.42M£20.6414.39

AFC Energy has a beta of 2.96, indicating that its share price is 196% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FW Thorpe has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

FW Thorpe beats AFC Energy on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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AFC vs. The Competition

MetricAFC EnergyElectrical Equipment & Parts IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£85.91M£3.97B£7.63B£2.66B
Dividend Yield4.13%3.63%4.58%5.05%
P/E Ratio-3.848.8323.14129.21
Price / Sales172.761,298.3090.54221,406.01
Price / Cash3.0312.3626.9428.02
Price / Book3.233.203.973.79
Net Income-£22.39M-£42.19M£807.24M£5.88B
7 Day Performance-6.86%0.78%0.77%0.63%
1 Month Performance82.55%13.07%11.16%22.11%
1 Year Performance-53.84%-10.24%19.74%120.87%

AFC Energy Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AFC
AFC Energy
N/AGBX 10.04
-0.6%
N/A-52.5%£85.91M£497,288.65-3.84120Positive News
Gap Down
TFW
FW Thorpe
N/AGBX 290
flat
N/A-19.9%£341.66M£176.56M14.05900Gap Up
LUCE
Luceco
N/AGBX 148.40
-1.9%
N/A-16.2%£238.59M£227.36M12.511,504
XPP
XP Power
3.0992 of 5 stars
GBX 783
-0.5%
GBX 1,470
+87.7%
-53.5%£189.44M£289.20M-12.952,435News Coverage
Positive News
SUP
Supreme
N/AGBX 160
-0.6%
N/A+29.7%£186.27M£219.82M8.347,800Trending News
CWR
Ceres Power
2.8504 of 5 stars
GBX 72.35
-3.0%
GBX 340
+369.9%
-63.3%£141.04M£39.90M-3.50591News Coverage
Positive News
DWHA
Dewhurst Group
N/AGBX 575
flat
N/A-12.9%£71.16M£93.67M8.76338Gap Down
DWHT
Dewhurst Group
N/AGBX 1,008.80
+9.1%
N/A-15.7%£66.98M£50.25M8.25338Dividend Increase
Gap Down
IKA
Ilika
N/AGBX 33.40
-1.8%
N/A+21.7%£55.72M£799,031.68-11.0172News Coverage
Gap Up
DIA
Dialight
N/AGBX 110
+3.7%
N/A-35.1%£43.82M£160.31M-1.901,358Gap Down
EAAS
eEnergy Group
2.1978 of 5 stars
GBX 5.47
-8.8%
GBX 12
+119.4%
-15.2%£21.18M£19.19M-4.89131News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:AFC) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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