SND vs. LGO, BATL, PED, NEOV, PFIE, FTK, VIA, KLXE, CRT, and NRT
Should you be buying Smart Sand stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smart Sand include Largo (LGO), Battalion Oil (BATL), PEDEVCO (PED), NeoVolta (NEOV), Profire Energy (PFIE), Flotek Industries (FTK), Via Renewables (VIA), KLX Energy Services (KLXE), Cross Timbers Royalty Trust (CRT), and North European Oil Royalty Trust (NRT). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Largo (NYSE:LGO) and Smart Sand (NASDAQ:SND) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
Smart Sand received 415 more outperform votes than Largo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.37% of users gave Smart Sand an outperform vote while only 48.84% of users gave Largo an outperform vote.
Largo has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smart Sand has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Smart Sand has higher revenue and earnings than Largo. Largo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smart Sand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Smart Sand has a net margin of 1.57% compared to Smart Sand's net margin of -16.29%. Largo's return on equity of 1.94% beat Smart Sand's return on equity.
Largo currently has a consensus price target of $4.70, suggesting a potential upside of 184.85%. Smart Sand has a consensus price target of $2.75, suggesting a potential upside of 16.03%. Given Smart Sand's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Largo is more favorable than Smart Sand.
In the previous week, Largo had 4 more articles in the media than Smart Sand. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Largo and 2 mentions for Smart Sand. Smart Sand's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Largo's score of 0.47 indicating that Largo is being referred to more favorably in the media.
64.1% of Largo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Smart Sand shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Largo shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.3% of Smart Sand shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Smart Sand beats Largo on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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