PEIX vs. GEVO, VGAS, AMTX, ORGN, FF, DTI, PROP, KLXE, TUSK, and HNRG
Should you be buying Alto Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alto Ingredients include Gevo (GEVO), Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), Aemetis (AMTX), Origin Materials (ORGN), FutureFuel (FF), Drilling Tools International (DTI), Prairie Operating (PROP), KLX Energy Services (KLXE), Mammoth Energy Services (TUSK), and Hallador Energy (HNRG). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Alto Ingredients (NASDAQ:PEIX) and Gevo (NASDAQ:GEVO) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
In the previous week, Gevo had 2 more articles in the media than Alto Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Gevo and 0 mentions for Alto Ingredients. Alto Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Gevo's score of -0.36 indicating that Alto Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alto Ingredients has a beta of 3.35, suggesting that its share price is 235% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gevo has a beta of 2.86, suggesting that its share price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gevo received 21 more outperform votes than Alto Ingredients when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.57% of users gave Alto Ingredients an outperform vote while only 65.74% of users gave Gevo an outperform vote.
29.5% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Gevo shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Gevo shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Gevo has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alto Ingredients. Gevo 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 has a net margin of -3.32% compared to Gevo's net margin of -384.97%. Alto Ingredients' return on equity of -2.90% beat Gevo's return on equity.
Gevo has a consensus price target of $4.76, indicating a potential upside of 620.61%. Given Gevo's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gevo is more favorable than Alto Ingredients.
Summary
Alto Ingredients beats Gevo on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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