AIU vs. FTEK, AP, EBON, PPSI, TPCS, ISDR, FATH, SNT, BWEN, and CLIR
Should you be buying Meta Data stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meta Data include Fuel Tech (FTEK), Ampco-Pittsburgh (AP), Ebang International (EBON), Pioneer Power Solutions (PPSI), TechPrecision (TPCS), Issuer Direct (ISDR), Fathom Digital Manufacturing (FATH), Senstar Technologies (SNT), Broadwind (BWEN), and ClearSign Technologies (CLIR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Meta Data (NYSE:AIU) and Fuel Tech (NASDAQ:FTEK) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Meta Data has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fuel Tech has a beta of 4.21, meaning that its stock price is 321% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Fuel Tech had 4 more articles in the media than Meta Data. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Fuel Tech and 3 mentions for Meta Data. Fuel Tech's average media sentiment score of -0.01 beat Meta Data's score of -0.26 indicating that Fuel Tech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fuel Tech received 213 more outperform votes than Meta Data when rated by MarketBeat users.
0.4% of Meta Data shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.9% of Fuel Tech shares are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of Meta Data shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of Fuel Tech shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Meta Data has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Fuel Tech's net margin of -5.68%. Meta Data's return on equity of 0.00% beat Fuel Tech's return on equity.
Fuel Tech has a consensus target price of $4.00, suggesting a potential upside of 207.69%. Given Fuel Tech's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Fuel Tech is more favorable than Meta Data.
Meta Data has higher revenue and earnings than Fuel Tech.
Summary
Fuel Tech beats Meta Data on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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