AFC vs. LUCE, XPP, SUP, CWR, DWHT, DWHA, IKA, DIA, EAAS, and GELN
Should you be buying AFC Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AFC Energy include Luceco (LUCE), XP Power (XPP), Supreme (SUP), Ceres Power (CWR), Dewhurst Group (DWHT), Dewhurst Group (DWHA), Ilika (IKA), Dialight (DIA), eEnergy Group (EAAS), and Gelion (GELN). These companies are all part of the "electrical equipment & parts" industry.
AFC Energy vs.
Luceco (LON:LUCE) and AFC Energy (LON:AFC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Luceco has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AFC Energy has a beta of 2.96, meaning that its share price is 196% more volatile than the S&P 500.
23.7% of Luceco shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.3% of AFC Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 57.8% of Luceco shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.2% of AFC Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AFC Energy has a consensus price target of GBX 4,000, suggesting a potential upside of 63,695.85%. Given AFC Energy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe AFC Energy is more favorable than Luceco.
AFC Energy received 31 more outperform votes than Luceco when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.42% of users gave Luceco an outperform vote while only 64.68% of users gave AFC Energy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, AFC Energy had 2 more articles in the media than Luceco. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for AFC Energy and 0 mentions for Luceco. AFC Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Luceco's score of 0.00 indicating that AFC Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Luceco has a net margin of 8.41% compared to AFC Energy's net margin of -4,502.53%. Luceco's return on equity of 19.86% beat AFC Energy's return on equity.
Luceco has higher revenue and earnings than AFC Energy. AFC Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Luceco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Luceco beats AFC Energy on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:AFC) was last updated on 4/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
