DQ vs. GPRE, FSM, SAND, HWKN, OEC, WS, CGAU, KRO, IAG, and SA
Should you be buying Daqo New Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Daqo New Energy include Green Plains (GPRE), Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), Hawkins (HWKN), Orion (OEC), Worthington Steel (WS), Centerra Gold (CGAU), Kronos Worldwide (KRO), IAMGOLD (IAG), and Seabridge Gold (SA). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Daqo New Energy (NYSE:DQ) and Green Plains (NASDAQ:GPRE) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Daqo New Energy has a net margin of 18.24% compared to Green Plains' net margin of -2.83%. Daqo New Energy's return on equity of 6.42% beat Green Plains' return on equity.
Daqo New Energy has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Green Plains has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Daqo New Energy presently has a consensus price target of $36.23, indicating a potential upside of 52.63%. Green Plains has a consensus price target of $37.40, indicating a potential upside of 74.77%. Given Green Plains' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Green Plains is more favorable than Daqo New Energy.
Daqo New Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Green Plains. Green Plains is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Daqo New Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Daqo New Energy and Daqo New Energy both had 5 articles in the media. Daqo New Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Green Plains' score of -0.01 indicating that Daqo New Energy is being referred to more favorably in the media.
47.2% of Daqo New Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.3% of Daqo New Energy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Green Plains shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Green Plains received 40 more outperform votes than Daqo New Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.86% of users gave Daqo New Energy an outperform vote while only 64.30% of users gave Green Plains an outperform vote.
Summary
Daqo New Energy beats Green Plains on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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