ASTI vs. AMNI, ISUN, CSLR, ROCG, SPI, FTCI, SOL, SPWR, CSIQ, and JKS
Should you be buying Ascent Solar Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ascent Solar Technologies include American Noble Gas (AMNI), iSun (ISUN), Complete Solaria (CSLR), Roth CH Acquisition IV (ROCG), SPI Energy (SPI), FTC Solar (FTCI), Emeren Group (SOL), SunPower (SPWR), Canadian Solar (CSIQ), and JinkoSolar (JKS). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
American Noble Gas (NYSE:AMNI) and Ascent Solar Technologies (NASDAQ:ASTI) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
American Noble Gas has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ascent Solar Technologies. American Noble Gas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ascent Solar Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
10.6% of Ascent Solar Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.9% of American Noble Gas shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.5% of Ascent Solar Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
American Noble Gas has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ascent Solar Technologies has a beta of 1.96, meaning that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ascent Solar Technologies has a net margin of -3,731.58% compared to Ascent Solar Technologies' net margin of -6,812.50%.
In the previous week, Ascent Solar Technologies had 1 more articles in the media than American Noble Gas. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ascent Solar Technologies and 0 mentions for American Noble Gas. Ascent Solar Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat American Noble Gas' score of -1.00 indicating that American Noble Gas is being referred to more favorably in the media.
American Noble Gas and Ascent Solar Technologies both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Ascent Solar Technologies beats American Noble Gas on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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