SLI vs. LOOP, GURE, FMC, OLN, BCPC, ASH, HUN, CC, IOSP, and HWKN
Should you be buying Standard Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Standard Lithium include Loop Industries (LOOP), Gulf Resources (GURE), FMC (FMC), Olin (OLN), Balchem (BCPC), Ashland (ASH), Huntsman (HUN), Chemours (CC), Innospec (IOSP), and Hawkins (HWKN). These companies are all part of the "chemicals & allied products" industry.
Loop Industries (NASDAQ:LOOP) and Standard Lithium (NYSE:SLI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Loop Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Lithium. Standard Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Loop Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Loop Industries received 122 more outperform votes than Standard Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Standard Lithium an outperform vote while only 66.85% of users gave Loop Industries an outperform vote.
Loop Industries has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Standard Lithium has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
4.9% of Loop Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.8% of Standard Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. 49.8% of Loop Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Standard Lithium shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Loop Industries and Loop Industries both had 1 articles in the media. Standard Lithium's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Loop Industries' score of 1.00 indicating that Loop Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Loop Industries presently has a consensus target price of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 209.92%. Standard Lithium has a consensus target price of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 159.26%. Given Standard Lithium's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Loop Industries is more favorable than Standard Lithium.
Standard Lithium has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Standard Lithium's net margin of -13,859.87%. Loop Industries' return on equity of -36.48% beat Standard Lithium's return on equity.
Summary
Loop Industries and Standard Lithium tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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