TANH vs. ITP, LODE, GAMC, AMTX, WLKP, GPRE, SXT, MEOH, NEU, and WLK
Should you be buying Tantech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tantech include IT Tech Packaging (ITP), Comstock (LODE), Golden Arrow Merger (GAMC), Aemetis (AMTX), Westlake Chemical Partners (WLKP), Green Plains (GPRE), Sensient Technologies (SXT), Methanex (MEOH), NewMarket (NEU), and Westlake (WLK).
IT Tech Packaging (NYSE:ITP) and Tantech (NASDAQ:TANH) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, IT Tech Packaging had 1 more articles in the media than Tantech. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for IT Tech Packaging and 2 mentions for Tantech. IT Tech Packaging's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Tantech's score of -0.43 indicating that Tantech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tantech received 76 more outperform votes than IT Tech Packaging when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.52% of users gave IT Tech Packaging an outperform vote while only 41.91% of users gave Tantech an outperform vote.
Tantech has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IT Tech Packaging.
3.0% of IT Tech Packaging shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.0% of Tantech shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of IT Tech Packaging shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of Tantech shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tantech has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Tantech's net margin of -14.88%. IT Tech Packaging's return on equity of 0.00% beat Tantech's return on equity.
IT Tech Packaging has a beta of -0.17, indicating that its stock price is 117% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tantech has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Tantech beats IT Tech Packaging on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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