AFC vs. SUP, DIA, IKA, PPS, XPP, LUCE, CWR, TFW, VLX, and PPHC
Should you be buying AFC Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AFC Energy include Supreme (SUP), Dialight (DIA), Ilika (IKA), Proton Motor Power Systems (PPS), XP Power (XPP), Luceco (LUCE), Ceres Power (CWR), FW Thorpe (TFW), Volex (VLX), and Public Policy (PPHC). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Supreme (LON:SUP) and AFC Energy (LON:AFC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
22.6% of Supreme shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.9% of AFC Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 57.9% of Supreme shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.9% of AFC Energy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
AFC Energy received 159 more outperform votes than Supreme when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 93.33% of users gave Supreme an outperform vote while only 64.55% of users gave AFC Energy an outperform vote.
Supreme has higher revenue and earnings than AFC Energy. AFC Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Supreme, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Supreme has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AFC Energy has a beta of 2.38, suggesting that its share price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Supreme has a net margin of 9.16% compared to Supreme's net margin of 0.00%. AFC Energy's return on equity of 45.59% beat Supreme's return on equity.
In the previous week, Supreme had 93 more articles in the media than AFC Energy. MarketBeat recorded 98 mentions for Supreme and 5 mentions for AFC Energy. AFC Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Supreme's score of 0.20 indicating that Supreme is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Supreme presently has a consensus target price of GBX 205, suggesting a potential upside of 64.00%. Given AFC Energy's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Supreme is more favorable than AFC Energy.
Summary
Supreme beats AFC Energy on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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