LODE vs. ALTO, GAMC, TOMZ, CNEY, TANH, BAK, LYB, IFF, WLK, and NEU
Should you be buying Comstock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Comstock include Alto Ingredients (ALTO), Golden Arrow Merger (GAMC), TOMI Environmental Solutions (TOMZ), CN Energy Group. (CNEY), Tantech (TANH), Braskem (BAK), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Westlake (WLK), and NewMarket (NEU). These companies are all part of the "industrial organic chemicals" industry.
Alto Ingredients (NASDAQ:ALTO) and Comstock (NYSE:LODE) are both small-cap consumer discretionary 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.
Alto Ingredients has a beta of 1.92, indicating that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comstock has a beta of 2.04, indicating that its share price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Comstock has a net margin of 474.79% compared to Comstock's net margin of -2.31%. Alto Ingredients' return on equity of -5.56% beat Comstock's return on equity.
42.4% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.0% of Comstock shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Comstock 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.
Comstock has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alto Ingredients. Alto Ingredients is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Comstock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alto Ingredients received 9 more outperform votes than Comstock when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 36.00% of users gave Alto Ingredients an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Comstock an outperform vote.
Alto Ingredients currently has a consensus target price of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 261.84%. Given Comstock's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Alto Ingredients is more favorable than Comstock.
In the previous week, Comstock had 1 more articles in the media than Alto Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Comstock and 4 mentions for Alto Ingredients. Comstock's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Alto Ingredients' score of 0.36 indicating that Alto Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Comstock beats Alto Ingredients on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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