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Alto Ingredients (PEIX) Competitors

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PEIX vs. LODE, GPRK, FET, BRY, RNGR, NC, PNRG, MNTK, TOYO, and SJT

Should you be buying Alto Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alto Ingredients include Comstock (LODE), Geopark (GPRK), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), Berry (BRY), Ranger Energy Services (RNGR), NACCO Industries (NC), PrimeEnergy (PNRG), Montauk Renewables (MNTK), TOYO (TOYO), and San Juan Basin Royalty Trust (SJT).

Alto Ingredients vs. Its Competitors

Comstock (NYSE:LODE) and Alto Ingredients (NASDAQ:PEIX) are both small-cap industrial organic chemicals industry companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.

Comstock has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alto Ingredients has a beta of 3.35, suggesting that its share price is 235% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Comstock had 1 more articles in the media than Alto Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Comstock and 0 mentions for Alto Ingredients. Comstock's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Alto Ingredients' score of 0.00 indicating that Comstock is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Comstock Positive
Alto Ingredients Neutral

Comstock presently has a consensus target price of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.61%. Given Comstock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Comstock is more favorable than Alto Ingredients.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Comstock
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Alto Ingredients
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

8.0% of Comstock shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.5% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. 4.5% of Comstock shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Alto Ingredients has a net margin of -3.32% compared to Comstock's net margin of -1,210.13%. Alto Ingredients' return on equity of -2.90% beat Comstock's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Comstock-1,210.13% -33.56% -23.62%
Alto Ingredients -3.32%-2.90%-1.18%

Comstock has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alto Ingredients. Comstock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alto Ingredients, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Comstock$3.28M35.16$9.16M-$1.20-2.68
Alto Ingredients$1.42B0.04-$88.95M-$1.40-0.66

Summary

Comstock beats Alto Ingredients on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PEIX vs. The Competition

MetricAlto IngredientsIndustrial Organic Chemicals IndustryEnergy SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$62.83M$343.74M$7.96B$10.40B
Dividend YieldN/A2.59%10.82%4.60%
P/E Ratio-1.131.2840.5926.78
Price / Sales0.0433.401,209.83123.53
Price / CashN/A3.5136.4561.55
Price / Book0.232.774.056.40
Net Income-$88.95M$190.82M$4.28B$271.80M

Alto Ingredients Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PEIX
Alto Ingredients
N/A$0.92
-28.6%
N/A-27.4%$62.83M$1.42B-1.13500
LODE
Comstock
1.4704 of 5 stars
$2.96
+3.1%
$4.00
+35.1%
-15.0%$106.36M$3.28M-24.6630Positive News
GPRK
Geopark
4.5931 of 5 stars
$6.56
+5.6%
$11.00
+67.7%
-21.6%$318.25M$660.80M7.90460Positive News
High Trading Volume
FET
Forum Energy Technologies
1.1513 of 5 stars
$26.56
flat
N/A+60.4%$316.15M$816.40M-2.991,800Positive News
BRY
Berry
3.3201 of 5 stars
$3.98
-0.7%
$4.00
+0.5%
-29.3%$311.16M$776.50M56.861,070Analyst Downgrade
High Trading Volume
RNGR
Ranger Energy Services
2.9853 of 5 stars
$14.43
+1.3%
$13.00
-9.9%
+11.4%$311.05M$571.10M14.581,950Positive News
Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
NC
NACCO Industries
3.7867 of 5 stars
$41.16
+1.0%
N/A+61.6%$303.58M$237.71M9.661,700News Coverage
Positive News
PNRG
PrimeEnergy
0.4971 of 5 stars
$175.86
+2.3%
N/A+12.3%$283.54M$237.80M11.83110
MNTK
Montauk Renewables
2.1997 of 5 stars
$2.01
+1.5%
$3.33
+65.8%
-58.4%$281.67M$175.74M100.50130News Coverage
TOYO
TOYO
0.3732 of 5 stars
$5.94
+0.5%
N/A+84.1%$272.66M$176.96M0.00N/A
SJT
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust
0.4076 of 5 stars
$5.76
+0.2%
N/A+60.3%$268M$7.03M0.002,020News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:PEIX) was last updated on 9/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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