IOF vs. ITX, DCTA, STCM, EMH, EUA, CUSN, PYX, SRB, ZIOC, and EEE
Should you be buying Iofina stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Iofina include Itaconix (ITX), Directa Plus (DCTA), Steppe Cement (STCM), European Metals (EMH), Eurasia Mining (EUA), Cornish Metals (CUSN), PYX Resources (PYX), Serabi Gold (SRB), Zanaga Iron Ore (ZIOC), and Empire Metals (EEE). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Itaconix (LON:ITX) and Iofina (LON:IOF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Iofina has higher revenue and earnings than Itaconix. Itaconix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iofina, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Iofina has a consensus target price of GBX 35, suggesting a potential upside of 77.27%. Given Itaconix's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Iofina is more favorable than Itaconix.
49.7% of Itaconix shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.4% of Iofina shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.4% of Itaconix shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.8% of Iofina shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Iofina has a net margin of 20.08% compared to Iofina's net margin of -30.98%. Itaconix's return on equity of 25.83% beat Iofina's return on equity.
Itaconix has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Iofina has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Itaconix had 1 more articles in the media than Iofina. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Itaconix and 0 mentions for Iofina. Itaconix's average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Iofina's score of 0.55 indicating that Iofina is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Iofina received 93 more outperform votes than Itaconix when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.81% of users gave Itaconix an outperform vote while only 65.98% of users gave Iofina an outperform vote.
Summary
Iofina beats Itaconix on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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