AFC vs. SUP, DIA, IKA, PPS, DWHT, LUCE, XPP, CWR, TFW, and ECEL
Should you be buying AFC Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AFC Energy include Supreme (SUP), Dialight (DIA), Ilika (IKA), Proton Motor Power Systems (PPS), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Luceco (LUCE), XP Power (XPP), Ceres Power (CWR), FW Thorpe (TFW), and Eurocell (ECEL). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
AFC Energy (LON:AFC) and Supreme (LON:SUP) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
AFC Energy currently has a consensus price target of GBX 4,000, suggesting a potential upside of 19,038.76%. Supreme has a consensus price target of GBX 205, suggesting a potential upside of 58.91%. Given AFC Energy's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe AFC Energy is more favorable than Supreme.
AFC Energy received 160 more outperform votes than Supreme when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.50% of users gave Supreme an outperform vote while only 64.68% of users gave AFC Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Supreme had 68 more articles in the media than AFC Energy. MarketBeat recorded 73 mentions for Supreme and 5 mentions for AFC Energy. Supreme's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat AFC Energy's score of 0.42 indicating that Supreme is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AFC Energy has a beta of 2.42, suggesting that its share price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Supreme has a beta of 1.23, suggesting that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Supreme has higher revenue and earnings than AFC Energy. AFC Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Supreme, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Supreme has a net margin of 9.16% compared to AFC Energy's net margin of 0.00%. Supreme's return on equity of 45.59% beat AFC Energy's return on equity.
20.5% of AFC Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.0% of Supreme shares are held by institutional investors. 16.6% of AFC Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.9% of Supreme shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Supreme beats AFC Energy on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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