SND vs. IPI, PLL, ATLX, LGO, ABAT, FEAM, SOI, SLCA, MLM, and VMC
Should you be buying Smart Sand stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smart Sand include Intrepid Potash (IPI), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), Atlas Lithium (ATLX), Largo (LGO), American Battery Technology (ABAT), 5E Advanced Materials (FEAM), Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (SOI), U.S. Silica (SLCA), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), and Vulcan Materials (VMC).
Intrepid Potash (NYSE:IPI) and Smart Sand (NASDAQ:SND) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Intrepid Potash has a beta of 2.17, suggesting that its stock price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smart Sand has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Smart Sand received 133 more outperform votes than Intrepid Potash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.28% of users gave Smart Sand an outperform vote while only 50.25% of users gave Intrepid Potash an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Smart Sand had 2 more articles in the media than Intrepid Potash. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Smart Sand and 2 mentions for Intrepid Potash. Intrepid Potash's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Smart Sand's score of 0.03 indicating that Smart Sand is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Intrepid Potash currently has a consensus target price of $23.00, suggesting a potential downside of 14.28%. Smart Sand has a consensus target price of $2.88, suggesting a potential upside of 27.78%. Given Intrepid Potash's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Smart Sand is more favorable than Intrepid Potash.
56.1% of Intrepid Potash shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Smart Sand shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.0% of Intrepid Potash shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.3% of Smart Sand shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Smart Sand has a net margin of 2.71% compared to Smart Sand's net margin of -15.95%. Intrepid Potash's return on equity of 3.31% beat Smart Sand's return on equity.
Smart Sand has higher revenue and earnings than Intrepid Potash. Intrepid Potash is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smart Sand, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Smart Sand beats Intrepid Potash on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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