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Alto Ingredients (PEIX) Competitors

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PEIX vs. LODE, FET, RNGR, NC, MNTK, FREY, SJT, WTI, PNRG, and TOYO

Should you be buying Alto Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alto Ingredients include Comstock (LODE), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), Ranger Energy Services (RNGR), NACCO Industries (NC), Montauk Renewables (MNTK), FREYR Battery (FREY), San Juan Basin Royalty Trust (SJT), W&T Offshore (WTI), PrimeEnergy (PNRG), and TOYO (TOYO).

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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.

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

In the previous week, Comstock's average media sentiment score of 1.00 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

8.0% of Comstock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.5% of Alto Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Comstock shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Alto Ingredients 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.

Comstock presently has a consensus price target of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 37.46%. Given Comstock's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly 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

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$3.28M31.87$9.16M-$1.20-2.43
Alto Ingredients$1.42B0.06-$88.95M-$1.40-0.84

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%

Summary

Comstock and Alto Ingredients tied by winning 7 of the 14 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$80.83M$1.41B$7.94B$10.13B
Dividend YieldN/A2.59%10.78%4.60%
P/E Ratio-1.461.3739.9125.93
Price / Sales0.0626.44946.84183.79
Price / CashN/A3.5136.2560.44
Price / Book0.292.573.906.29
Net Income-$88.95M$190.82M$4.29B$270.77M

Alto Ingredients Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PEIX
Alto Ingredients
N/A$1.18
+1.7%
N/A-18.9%$80.83M$1.42B-1.46500
LODE
Comstock
1.3972 of 5 stars
$2.43
+0.4%
$4.00
+64.6%
-13.6%$87.31M$3.28M-20.2530Positive News
Gap Up
FET
Forum Energy Technologies
1.0371 of 5 stars
$26.28
+0.4%
N/A+76.1%$311.63M$816.40M-2.961,800Positive News
RNGR
Ranger Energy Services
2.6259 of 5 stars
$13.47
-2.5%
$13.00
-3.5%
+17.8%$301.65M$571.90M13.601,950News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↓
NC
NACCO Industries
3.6534 of 5 stars
$39.84
+0.9%
N/A+55.8%$294.12M$265.88M9.351,700
MNTK
Montauk Renewables
2.5554 of 5 stars
$2.00
-2.9%
$3.33
+66.7%
-53.9%$293.05M$175.74M100.00130News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
FREY
FREYR Battery
N/A$1.98
flat
$4.00
+102.0%
+82.5%$278.17MN/A-2.61210Gap Down
SJT
San Juan Basin Royalty Trust
0.3095 of 5 stars
$5.83
+0.1%
N/A+71.9%$271.26M$7.03M0.002,020News Coverage
WTI
W&T Offshore
1.2259 of 5 stars
$1.73
-1.4%
N/A-10.8%$259.59M$525.26M-2.27320News Coverage
Positive News
PNRG
PrimeEnergy
0.6251 of 5 stars
$152.97
-0.2%
N/A+27.2%$252.86M$237.80M10.29110
TOYO
TOYO
0.3008 of 5 stars
$5.13
-5.4%
N/A+90.0%$249.84M$176.96M0.00N/AEarnings Report

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