LGO vs. SND, NINE, BATL, ORGN, PFIE, VIA, CRT, MAXN, PED, and GIFI
Should you be buying Largo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Largo include Smart Sand (SND), Nine Energy Service (NINE), Battalion Oil (BATL), Origin Materials (ORGN), Profire Energy (PFIE), Via Renewables (VIA), Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (CRT), Maxeon Solar Technologies (MAXN), PEDEVCO (PED), and Gulf Island Fabrication (GIFI). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Smart Sand (NASDAQ:SND) and Largo (NYSE:LGO) 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, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
Smart Sand has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Largo has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Smart Sand currently has a consensus price target of $2.75, suggesting a potential upside of 34.80%. Largo has a consensus price target of $4.60, suggesting a potential upside of 208.72%. Given Smart Sand's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Largo is more favorable than Smart Sand.
Smart Sand has higher revenue and earnings than Largo. Largo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smart Sand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
35.2% of Smart Sand shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.1% of Largo shares are held by institutional investors. 30.3% of Smart Sand shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Largo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Smart Sand received 416 more outperform votes than Largo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.37% of users gave Smart Sand an outperform vote while only 47.62% of users gave Largo an outperform vote.
Smart Sand has a net margin of 1.57% compared to Smart Sand's net margin of -16.29%. Largo's return on equity of 1.94% beat Smart Sand's return on equity.
In the previous week, Largo had 1 more articles in the media than Smart Sand. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Largo and 1 mentions for Smart Sand. Largo's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Smart Sand's score of -0.30 indicating that Smart Sand is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Smart Sand beats Largo on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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