FTK vs. FF, SHW, ECL, IFF, CE, RPM, ALB, NEU, ASH, and BCPC
Should you be buying Flotek Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flotek Industries include FutureFuel (FF), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Ecolab (ECL), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Celanese (CE), RPM International (RPM), Albemarle (ALB), NewMarket (NEU), Ashland (ASH), and Balchem (BCPC). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
FutureFuel (NYSE:FF) and Flotek Industries (NYSE:FTK) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk and dividends.
FutureFuel has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flotek Industries has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FutureFuel has a net margin of 5.86% compared to FutureFuel's net margin of 2.73%. Flotek Industries' return on equity of 7.46% beat FutureFuel's return on equity.
44.6% of FutureFuel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.9% of Flotek Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 40.9% of FutureFuel shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Flotek Industries shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
FutureFuel has higher revenue and earnings than Flotek Industries. FutureFuel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flotek Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Flotek Industries received 46 more outperform votes than FutureFuel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.22% of users gave FutureFuel an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Flotek Industries an outperform vote.
FutureFuel currently has a consensus target price of $0.80, suggesting a potential downside of 81.31%. Flotek Industries has a consensus target price of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 64.32%. Given FutureFuel's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Flotek Industries is more favorable than FutureFuel.
In the previous week, FutureFuel had 4 more articles in the media than Flotek Industries. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for FutureFuel and 1 mentions for Flotek Industries. FutureFuel's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Flotek Industries' score of 0.13 indicating that Flotek Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
FutureFuel beats Flotek Industries on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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