FF vs. GEVO, AMTX, VGAS, ORGN, RNGR, FET, FREY, UROY, NC, and ZEO
Should you be buying FutureFuel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FutureFuel include Gevo (GEVO), Aemetis (AMTX), Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), Origin Materials (ORGN), Ranger Energy Services (RNGR), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), FREYR Battery (FREY), Uranium Royalty (UROY), NACCO Industries (NC), and Zeo Energy (ZEO).
FutureFuel (NYSE:FF) and Gevo (NASDAQ:GEVO) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
FutureFuel has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gevo has a beta of 2.86, meaning that its stock price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FutureFuel has a net margin of 10.15% compared to Gevo's net margin of -384.97%. FutureFuel's return on equity of 12.41% beat Gevo's return on equity.
In the previous week, Gevo had 2 more articles in the media than FutureFuel. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Gevo and 2 mentions for FutureFuel. Gevo's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat FutureFuel's score of -0.50 indicating that Gevo is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
44.6% of FutureFuel shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Gevo shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.9% of FutureFuel shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Gevo shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gevo received 147 more outperform votes than FutureFuel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.33% of users gave FutureFuel an outperform vote while only 65.74% of users gave Gevo an outperform vote.
FutureFuel has higher revenue and earnings than Gevo. Gevo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FutureFuel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gevo has a consensus price target of $4.76, indicating a potential upside of 585.75%. Given Gevo's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gevo is more favorable than FutureFuel.
Summary
FutureFuel beats Gevo on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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