VGAS vs. AMTX, GEVO, ORGN, FF, TUSK, HNRG, PROP, NRGV, DTI, and PNRG
Should you be buying Verde Clean Fuels stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Verde Clean Fuels include Aemetis (AMTX), Gevo (GEVO), Origin Materials (ORGN), FutureFuel (FF), Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK), Hallador Energy (HNRG), Prairie Operating (PROP), Energy Vault (NRGV), Drilling Tools International (DTI), and PrimeEnergy Resources (PNRG). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Aemetis (NASDAQ:AMTX) and Verde Clean Fuels (NASDAQ:VGAS) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.
Aemetis received 173 more outperform votes than Verde Clean Fuels when rated by MarketBeat users.
Aemetis presently has a consensus price target of $10.30, suggesting a potential upside of 156.86%. Given Verde Clean Fuels' higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Aemetis is more favorable than Verde Clean Fuels.
Verde Clean Fuels has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Verde Clean Fuels' net margin of -24.86%. Verde Clean Fuels' return on equity of 0.00% beat Aemetis' return on equity.
27.0% of Aemetis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.6% of Verde Clean Fuels shares are held by institutional investors. 16.4% of Aemetis shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Verde Clean Fuels has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Aemetis. Verde Clean Fuels is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aemetis, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aemetis has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Verde Clean Fuels has a beta of -0.48, indicating that its stock price is 148% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Aemetis and Aemetis both had 4 articles in the media. Verde Clean Fuels' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Aemetis' score of 0.49 indicating that Aemetis is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Aemetis beats Verde Clean Fuels on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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