FF vs. AMTX, GEVO, ORGN, VGAS, RGCO, HNRG, SJT, FET, NC, and ZEO
Should you be buying FutureFuel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FutureFuel include Aemetis (AMTX), Gevo (GEVO), Origin Materials (ORGN), Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), RGC Resources (RGCO), Hallador Energy (HNRG), San Juan Basin Royalty Trust (SJT), Forum Energy Technologies (FET), NACCO Industries (NC), and Zeo Energy (ZEO). These companies are all part of the "oils/energy" sector.
Aemetis (NASDAQ:AMTX) and FutureFuel (NYSE:FF) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Aemetis had 2 more articles in the media than FutureFuel. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Aemetis and 5 mentions for FutureFuel. FutureFuel's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Aemetis' score of 0.13 indicating that Aemetis is being referred to more favorably in the media.
27.0% of Aemetis shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.6% of FutureFuel shares are held by institutional investors. 16.4% of Aemetis shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 40.9% of FutureFuel shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
FutureFuel has higher revenue and earnings than Aemetis. Aemetis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FutureFuel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aemetis has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% 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.
FutureFuel received 60 more outperform votes than Aemetis when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.22% of users gave FutureFuel an outperform vote while only 60.42% of users gave Aemetis an outperform vote.
Aemetis currently has a consensus target price of $10.40, indicating a potential upside of 172.25%. FutureFuel has a consensus target price of $0.80, indicating a potential downside of 83.44%. Given FutureFuel's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aemetis is more favorable than FutureFuel.
FutureFuel has a net margin of 5.86% compared to FutureFuel's net margin of -17.20%. Aemetis' return on equity of 7.46% beat FutureFuel's return on equity.
Summary
FutureFuel beats Aemetis on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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