AENT vs. ALTO, SKLZ, DLTH, SGA, ACU, BRAG, SCX, WW, PNST, and QSG
Should you be buying Alliance Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Entertainment include Alto Ingredients (ALTO), Skillz (SKLZ), Duluth (DLTH), Saga Communications (SGA), Acme United (ACU), Bragg Gaming Group (BRAG), L.S. Starrett (SCX), WW International (WW), Pinstripes (PNST), and QuantaSing Group (QSG). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Alto Ingredients (NASDAQ:ALTO) and Alliance Entertainment (NASDAQ:AENT) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
Alto Ingredients has higher revenue and earnings than Alliance Entertainment. Alliance Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alto Ingredients, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alto Ingredients presently has a consensus target price of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 216.09%. Alliance Entertainment has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 134.38%. Given Alliance Entertainment's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Alto Ingredients is more favorable than Alliance Entertainment.
Alliance Entertainment has a net margin of -0.23% compared to Alliance Entertainment's net margin of -2.31%. Alto Ingredients' return on equity of -3.08% beat Alliance Entertainment's return on equity.
Alto Ingredients received 8 more outperform votes than Alliance Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Alliance Entertainment an outperform vote while only 36.00% of users gave Alto Ingredients an outperform vote.
Alto Ingredients has a beta of 1.92, suggesting that its stock price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliance Entertainment has a beta of 0.31, suggesting that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500.
42.4% of Alto Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of Alliance Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Alto Ingredients shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of Alliance Entertainment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Alliance Entertainment had 6 more articles in the media than Alto Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Alliance Entertainment and 1 mentions for Alto Ingredients. Alliance Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Alto Ingredients' score of 0.33 indicating that Alto Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Alto Ingredients and Alliance Entertainment tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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