PEIX vs. VGAS, GEVO, ORGN, AMTX, FF, MAXN, DTI, SOL, HNRG, and PHX
Should you be buying Alto Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alto Ingredients include Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), Gevo (GEVO), Origin Materials (ORGN), Aemetis (AMTX), FutureFuel (FF), Maxeon Solar Technologies (MAXN), Drilling Tools International (DTI), Emeren Group (SOL), Hallador Energy (HNRG), and PHX Minerals (PHX). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Alto Ingredients (NASDAQ:PEIX) and Verde Clean Fuels (NASDAQ:VGAS) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Verde Clean Fuels has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alto Ingredients. Verde Clean Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alto Ingredients, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alto Ingredients has a beta of 3.35, suggesting that its share price is 235% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Verde Clean Fuels has a beta of -0.48, suggesting that its share price is 148% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Verde Clean Fuels has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Alto Ingredients' net margin of -3.32%. Alto Ingredients' return on equity of -2.90% beat Verde Clean Fuels' return on equity.
Alto Ingredients received 359 more outperform votes than Verde Clean Fuels when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Verde Clean Fuels had 4 more articles in the media than Alto Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Verde Clean Fuels and 1 mentions for Alto Ingredients. Verde Clean Fuels' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Alto Ingredients' score of 0.00 indicating that Verde Clean Fuels is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
29.5% of Alto Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.6% of Verde Clean Fuels shares are owned by institutional investors. 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 is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Alto Ingredients beats Verde Clean Fuels on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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