Arrow Exploration (AXL) Competitors

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

Which has better valuation & earnings, SUP or AXL?

Supreme has higher revenue and earnings than Arrow Exploration. Supreme is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arrow Exploration, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Supreme	£219.82M	0.83	£22.28M	£19.18	8.18
Arrow Exploration	£91.19M	0.61	£753.85K	£0.17	92.05

Do insiders & institutionals believe in SUP or AXL?

18.5% of Supreme shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.5% of Arrow Exploration shares are owned by institutional investors. 57.9% of Supreme shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of Arrow Exploration shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk & volatility, SUP or AXL?

Supreme has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arrow Exploration has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is SUP or AXL more profitable?

Supreme has a net margin of 10.14% compared to Arrow Exploration's net margin of 0.83%. Supreme's return on equity of 42.41% beat Arrow Exploration's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Supreme	10.14%	42.41%	20.33%
Arrow Exploration	0.83%	1.30%	9.86%

Does the media refer more to SUP or AXL?

In the previous week, Supreme had 34 more articles in the media than Arrow Exploration. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Supreme and 2 mentions for Arrow Exploration. Arrow Exploration's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Supreme's score of 0.48 indicating that Arrow Exploration is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Supreme	14 Very Positive mention(s)	11 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	3 Negative mention(s)	2 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Arrow Exploration	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor SUP or AXL?

Supreme and Arrow Exploration both received 14 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Arrow Exploration an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Supreme an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Supreme	Outperform Votes 14 66.67%	Underperform Votes 7 33.33%
Arrow Exploration	Outperform Votes 14 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes

Do analysts prefer SUP or AXL?

Arrow Exploration has a consensus price target of GBX 47, suggesting a potential upside of 204.21%. Given Arrow Exploration's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Arrow Exploration is more favorable than Supreme.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Supreme	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Arrow Exploration	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Summary

Supreme beats Arrow Exploration on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.