LTBR vs. USEG, SDPI, NCNC, CSLR, NCSM, BRN, ICD, INDO, ALCE, and MXC
Should you be buying Lightbridge stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lightbridge include U.S. Energy (USEG), Superior Drilling Products (SDPI), noco-noco (NCNC), Complete Solaria (CSLR), NCS Multistage (NCSM), Barnwell Industries (BRN), Independence Contract Drilling (ICD), Indonesia Energy (INDO), Alternus Clean Energy (ALCE), and Mexco Energy (MXC). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
U.S. Energy (NASDAQ:USEG) and Lightbridge (NASDAQ:LTBR) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Lightbridge has lower revenue, but higher earnings than U.S. Energy. Lightbridge is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
U.S. Energy has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lightbridge has a beta of 2.45, meaning that its stock price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, U.S. Energy had 8 more articles in the media than Lightbridge. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for U.S. Energy and 1 mentions for Lightbridge. U.S. Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Lightbridge's score of 0.44 indicating that Lightbridge is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3.0% of U.S. Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.1% of Lightbridge shares are held by institutional investors. 57.6% of U.S. Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Lightbridge shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lightbridge has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Lightbridge's net margin of -100.13%. U.S. Energy's return on equity of -27.51% beat Lightbridge's return on equity.
U.S. Energy received 92 more outperform votes than Lightbridge when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.76% of users gave Lightbridge an outperform vote while only 55.62% of users gave U.S. Energy an outperform vote.
Summary
Lightbridge beats U.S. Energy on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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