VGAS vs. VHI, LXFR, SLI, CBUS, AMTX, SDST, TLGY, LOOP, CGA, and LODE
Should you be buying Verde Clean Fuels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Verde Clean Fuels include Valhi (VHI), Luxfer (LXFR), Standard Lithium (SLI), Cibus (CBUS), Aemetis (AMTX), Stardust Power (SDST), TLGY Acquisition (TLGY), Loop Industries (LOOP), China Green Agriculture (CGA), and Comstock (LODE). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
Verde Clean Fuels (NASDAQ:VGAS) and Valhi (NYSE:VHI) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Verde Clean Fuels has a beta of -0.64, meaning that its share price is 164% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Valhi has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Verde Clean Fuels has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Valhi. Verde Clean Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Valhi, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
15.6% of Verde Clean Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.8% of Valhi shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Valhi 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.
Valhi has a net margin of 0.03% compared to Verde Clean Fuels' net margin of 0.00%. Valhi's return on equity of 0.05% beat Verde Clean Fuels' return on equity.
In the previous week, Verde Clean Fuels and Verde Clean Fuels both had 2 articles in the media. Verde Clean Fuels' average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Valhi's score of 0.45 indicating that Verde Clean Fuels is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Valhi received 232 more outperform votes than Verde Clean Fuels when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Valhi beats Verde Clean Fuels on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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