GEVO vs. FF, PEIX, GPP, AMRS, MPC, PSX, VLO, PBF, CVI, and DK
Should you be buying Gevo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gevo include FutureFuel (FF), Alto Ingredients (PEIX), Green Plains Partners (GPP), Amyris (AMRS), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Phillips 66 (PSX), Valero Energy (VLO), PBF Energy (PBF), CVR Energy (CVI), and Delek US (DK).
Gevo (NASDAQ:GEVO) and FutureFuel (NYSE:FF) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
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.
35.2% of Gevo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.6% of FutureFuel shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Gevo shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 40.9% of FutureFuel shares are owned 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.
Gevo presently has a consensus price target of $4.76, indicating a potential upside of 596.58%. FutureFuel has a consensus price target of $0.80, indicating a potential downside of 81.31%. Given Gevo's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Gevo is more favorable than FutureFuel.
In the previous week, FutureFuel had 2 more articles in the media than Gevo. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for FutureFuel and 3 mentions for Gevo. Gevo's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat FutureFuel's score of 0.13 indicating that Gevo is being referred to more favorably in the media.
FutureFuel has a net margin of 5.86% compared to Gevo's net margin of -393.88%. FutureFuel's return on equity of 7.46% beat Gevo's return on equity.
Gevo has a beta of 2.88, suggesting that its share price is 188% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FutureFuel has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Gevo received 147 more outperform votes than FutureFuel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.22% of users gave FutureFuel an outperform vote while only 65.80% of users gave Gevo an outperform vote.
Summary
FutureFuel beats Gevo on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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