GIFI vs. MAXN, SOL, MVO, PFIE, EPSN, NINE, LGO, KLXE, BATL, and ORGN
Should you be buying Gulf Island Fabrication stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gulf Island Fabrication include Maxeon Solar Technologies (MAXN), Emeren Group (SOL), MV Oil Trust (MVO), Profire Energy (PFIE), Epsilon Energy (EPSN), Nine Energy Service (NINE), Largo (LGO), KLX Energy Services (KLXE), Battalion Oil (BATL), and Origin Materials (ORGN). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Maxeon Solar Technologies (NASDAQ:MAXN) and Gulf Island Fabrication (NASDAQ:GIFI) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Maxeon Solar Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $6.59, indicating a potential upside of 270.44%. Given Gulf Island Fabrication's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Maxeon Solar Technologies is more favorable than Gulf Island Fabrication.
Maxeon Solar Technologies has a beta of 1.46, suggesting that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gulf Island Fabrication has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
47.7% of Maxeon Solar Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.4% of Gulf Island Fabrication shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Maxeon Solar Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.1% of Gulf Island Fabrication shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Maxeon Solar Technologies and Maxeon Solar Technologies both had 3 articles in the media. Maxeon Solar Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Gulf Island Fabrication's score of -0.99 indicating that Gulf Island Fabrication is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gulf Island Fabrication has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maxeon Solar Technologies. Gulf Island Fabrication is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Maxeon Solar Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Maxeon Solar Technologies has a net margin of -13.56% compared to Maxeon Solar Technologies' net margin of -16.15%. Maxeon Solar Technologies' return on equity of -27.29% beat Gulf Island Fabrication's return on equity.
Gulf Island Fabrication received 159 more outperform votes than Maxeon Solar Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.32% of users gave Gulf Island Fabrication an outperform vote while only 39.08% of users gave Maxeon Solar Technologies an outperform vote.
Summary
Gulf Island Fabrication beats Maxeon Solar Technologies on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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