FTK vs. SOL, VOC, PFIE, MAXN, ORGN, LGO, MVO, GIFI, SND, and CRT
Should you be buying Flotek Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flotek Industries include Emeren Group (SOL), VOC Energy Trust (VOC), Profire Energy (PFIE), Maxeon Solar Technologies (MAXN), Origin Materials (ORGN), Largo (LGO), MV Oil Trust (MVO), Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI), Smart Sand (SND), and Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (CRT). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Emeren Group (NYSE:SOL) and Flotek Industries (NYSE:FTK) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Emeren Group presently has a consensus target price of $5.80, suggesting a potential upside of 206.88%. Given Flotek Industries' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Emeren Group is more favorable than Flotek Industries.
Flotek Industries has a net margin of 13.14% compared to Flotek Industries' net margin of -8.91%. Flotek Industries' return on equity of 0.26% beat Emeren Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Flotek Industries had 2 more articles in the media than Emeren Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Flotek Industries and 1 mentions for Emeren Group. Emeren Group's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Flotek Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Flotek Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Flotek Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Emeren Group. Flotek Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Emeren Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
44.1% of Emeren Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.9% of Flotek Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 18.0% of Emeren Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.2% of Flotek Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Flotek Industries received 81 more outperform votes than Emeren Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.62% of users gave Flotek Industries an outperform vote while only 45.73% of users gave Emeren Group an outperform vote.
Emeren Group has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flotek Industries has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Emeren Group beats Flotek Industries on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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