ALTO vs. SOL, SKYS, LNZA, CDXS, FF, VGAS, ORGN, GEVO, AMTX, and GAMC
Should you be buying Alto Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alto Ingredients include Emeren Group (SOL), Sky Solar (SKYS), LanzaTech Global (LNZA), Codexis (CDXS), FutureFuel (FF), Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), Origin Materials (ORGN), Gevo (GEVO), Aemetis (AMTX), and Golden Arrow Merger (GAMC).
Alto Ingredients (NASDAQ:ALTO) and Emeren Group (NYSE:SOL) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Emeren Group received 190 more outperform votes than Alto Ingredients when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 45.54% of users gave Emeren Group an outperform vote while only 36.00% of users gave Alto Ingredients an outperform vote.
Alto Ingredients has a net margin of -2.31% compared to Emeren Group's net margin of -12.70%. Emeren Group's return on equity of -0.88% beat Alto Ingredients' return on equity.
Alto Ingredients has a beta of 1.84, meaning that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Emeren Group has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alto Ingredients presently has a consensus target price of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 276.71%. Emeren Group has a consensus target price of $5.38, suggesting a potential upside of 225.76%. Given Alto Ingredients' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Alto Ingredients is more favorable than Emeren Group.
Emeren Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alto Ingredients. Emeren Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alto Ingredients, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Emeren Group had 3 more articles in the media than Alto Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Emeren Group and 0 mentions for Alto Ingredients. Alto Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Emeren Group's score of 0.67 indicating that Alto Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the media.
42.4% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of Emeren Group shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.0% of Emeren Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Emeren Group beats Alto Ingredients on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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