SND vs. LGO, BATL, ELIQ, NEOV, AE, FTK, NRT, SPRU, PVL, and PRT
Should you be buying Smart Sand stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smart Sand include Largo (LGO), Battalion Oil (BATL), Electriq Power (ELIQ), NeoVolta (NEOV), Adams Resources & Energy (AE), Flotek Industries (FTK), North European Oil Royalty Trust (NRT), Spruce Power (SPRU), Permianville Royalty Trust (PVL), and PermRock Royalty Trust (PRT). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Smart Sand vs.
Largo (NYSE:LGO) and Smart Sand (NASDAQ:SND) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation and profitability.
64.1% of Largo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.8% of Smart Sand shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Largo shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 30.3% of Smart Sand shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Smart Sand received 414 more outperform votes than Largo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.62% of users gave Smart Sand an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Largo an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Smart Sand's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Largo's score of 0.00 indicating that Largo is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Smart Sand has higher revenue and earnings than Largo. Largo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smart Sand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Largo currently has a consensus price target of $11.50, indicating a potential upside of 280.79%. Smart Sand has a consensus price target of $2.75, indicating a potential upside of 18.03%. Given Smart Sand's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Largo is more favorable than Smart Sand.
Largo has a beta of 2.03, meaning that its share price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smart Sand has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Smart Sand has a net margin of 2.65% compared to Smart Sand's net margin of -11.97%. Largo's return on equity of 3.36% beat Smart Sand's return on equity.
Summary
Smart Sand beats Largo on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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