IOF vs. ZTF, ITX, WCH, DCTA, HDD, HAYD, BIOM, ZED, VRS, and ESKN
Should you be buying Iofina stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Iofina include Zotefoams (ZTF), Itaconix (ITX), Wilmcote Holdings plc (WCH.L) (WCH), Directa Plus (DCTA), Hardide (HDD), Haydale Graphene Industries (HAYD), Biome Technologies (BIOM), Zenova Group (ZED), Versarien (VRS), and Esken (ESKN). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
Iofina vs.
Iofina (LON:IOF) and Zotefoams (LON:ZTF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.
Zotefoams has higher revenue and earnings than Iofina. Zotefoams is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iofina, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Iofina has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zotefoams has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Zotefoams received 52 more outperform votes than Iofina when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.49% of users gave Zotefoams an outperform vote while only 66.21% of users gave Iofina an outperform vote.
6.4% of Iofina shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.7% of Zotefoams shares are owned by institutional investors. 45.1% of Iofina shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.0% of Zotefoams shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Iofina currently has a consensus target price of GBX 35, indicating a potential upside of 69.08%. Given Iofina's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Iofina is more favorable than Zotefoams.
In the previous week, Zotefoams had 2 more articles in the media than Iofina. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Zotefoams and 0 mentions for Iofina. Zotefoams' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Iofina's score of 0.00 indicating that Zotefoams is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Zotefoams has a net margin of 7.45% compared to Iofina's net margin of 6.98%. Zotefoams' return on equity of 8.52% beat Iofina's return on equity.
Summary
Zotefoams beats Iofina on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:IOF) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
