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FF vs. FTK, SHW, ECL, IFF, RPM, ALB, NEU, CE, BCPC, and SXT

Should you be buying FutureFuel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FutureFuel include Flotek Industries (FTK), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Ecolab (ECL), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), RPM International (RPM), Albemarle (ALB), NewMarket (NEU), Celanese (CE), Balchem (BCPC), and Sensient Technologies (SXT). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.

FutureFuel vs. Its Competitors

Flotek Industries (NYSE:FTK) and FutureFuel (NYSE:FF) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Flotek Industries presently has a consensus target price of $14.33, indicating a potential downside of 4.23%. Given Flotek Industries' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Flotek Industries is more favorable than FutureFuel.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Flotek Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80
FutureFuel
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

FutureFuel has higher revenue and earnings than Flotek Industries. FutureFuel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flotek Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Flotek Industries$187.02M2.39$10.50M$0.4533.26
FutureFuel$243.34M0.74$15.50M-$0.15-27.23

In the previous week, Flotek Industries had 1 more articles in the media than FutureFuel. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Flotek Industries and 1 mentions for FutureFuel. Flotek Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat FutureFuel's score of 0.42 indicating that Flotek Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Flotek Industries
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
FutureFuel
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

10.9% of Flotek Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.6% of FutureFuel shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Flotek Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.1% of FutureFuel shares are held by company 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.

Flotek Industries has a net margin of 7.09% compared to FutureFuel's net margin of -3.19%. Flotek Industries' return on equity of 12.76% beat FutureFuel's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Flotek Industries7.09% 12.76% 8.71%
FutureFuel -3.19%-3.15%-2.61%

Flotek Industries has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FutureFuel has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Flotek Industries beats FutureFuel on 13 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 NYSE 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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FF vs. The Competition

MetricFutureFuelBiofuels IndustryEnergy SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$178.92M$248.31M$7.52B$20.47B
Dividend Yield6.19%6.19%10.93%3.76%
P/E Ratio-27.235.2554.5827.69
Price / Sales0.741.2919,553.1537.00
Price / Cash6.848.7836.1621.79
Price / Book0.870.623.284.52
Net Income$15.50M-$19.55M$4.19B$984.47M
7 Day Performance1.49%9.86%1.10%3.14%
1 Month Performance3.92%26.49%5.50%5.57%
1 Year Performance-18.38%-11.64%105.05%13.91%

FutureFuel Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FF
FutureFuel
3.0723 of 5 stars
$4.09
+2.1%
N/A-20.2%$178.92M$243.34M-27.23470News Coverage
FTK
Flotek Industries
1.5546 of 5 stars
$14.91
+1.9%
$14.33
-3.9%
+209.3%$436.74M$187.02M33.13130High Trading Volume
SHW
Sherwin-Williams
4.826 of 5 stars
$342.97
-0.8%
$391.31
+14.1%
+20.2%$86.64B$23.10B32.4263,890Positive News
ECL
Ecolab
4.826 of 5 stars
$269.59
+0.8%
$283.13
+5.0%
+15.8%$75.86B$15.74B36.6348,000Positive News
IFF
International Flavors & Fragrances
4.4413 of 5 stars
$73.60
-1.0%
$93.43
+26.9%
-19.3%$19.02B$11.48B-22.513,400Positive News
RPM
RPM International
4.5724 of 5 stars
$109.81
-0.7%
$124.55
+13.4%
+6.2%$14.20B$7.34B22.0117,207News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
ALB
Albemarle
4.5007 of 5 stars
$62.81
-3.3%
$91.62
+45.9%
-35.5%$7.64B$5.38B-5.658,300News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
NEU
NewMarket
2.4661 of 5 stars
$690.45
+0.6%
N/A+35.3%$6.48B$2.79B13.742,060News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
CE
Celanese
3.365 of 5 stars
$55.48
-2.3%
$63.11
+13.8%
-55.8%$6.21B$10.28B-3.6512,163Positive News
BCPC
Balchem
4.447 of 5 stars
$159.20
+0.5%
$180.00
+13.1%
+5.0%$5.16B$953.68M38.181,361
SXT
Sensient Technologies
2.9637 of 5 stars
$98.44
+0.0%
$94.00
-4.5%
+41.3%$4.18B$1.56B32.604,014News Coverage

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