FTEK vs. PPIH, CLIR, FATH, PPSI, SNT, CVV, EBON, APWC, AP, and AIU
Should you be buying Fuel Tech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fuel Tech include Perma-Pipe International (PPIH), ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), Fathom Digital Manufacturing (FATH), Pioneer Power Solutions (PPSI), Senstar Technologies (SNT), CVD Equipment (CVV), Ebang International (EBON), Asia Pacific Wire & Cable (APWC), Ampco-Pittsburgh (AP), and Meta Data (AIU). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Fuel Tech (NASDAQ:FTEK) and Perma-Pipe International (NASDAQ:PPIH) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
Fuel Tech received 124 more outperform votes than Perma-Pipe International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.96% of users gave Perma-Pipe International an outperform vote while only 51.08% of users gave Fuel Tech an outperform vote.
Fuel Tech currently has a consensus target price of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 222.58%. Given Fuel Tech's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fuel Tech is more favorable than Perma-Pipe International.
Fuel Tech has a beta of 4.34, meaning that its share price is 334% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perma-Pipe International has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
20.9% of Fuel Tech shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.4% of Perma-Pipe International shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.6% of Fuel Tech shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Perma-Pipe International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Perma-Pipe International has higher revenue and earnings than Fuel Tech. Fuel Tech is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perma-Pipe International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Perma-Pipe International has a net margin of 3.45% compared to Fuel Tech's net margin of -5.68%. Perma-Pipe International's return on equity of 8.86% beat Fuel Tech's return on equity.
In the previous week, Perma-Pipe International had 2 more articles in the media than Fuel Tech. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Perma-Pipe International and 4 mentions for Fuel Tech. Perma-Pipe International's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Fuel Tech's score of 0.33 indicating that Perma-Pipe International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Perma-Pipe International beats Fuel Tech on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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