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ALTO vs. ARQ, AMTX, ORGN, VGAS, LODE, ZTEK, LOOP, LNZA, TSE, and FSI

Should you be buying Alto Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alto Ingredients include ARQ (ARQ), Aemetis (AMTX), Origin Materials (ORGN), Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), Comstock (LODE), Zentek (ZTEK), Loop Industries (LOOP), LanzaTech Global (LNZA), Trinseo (TSE), and Flexible Solutions International (FSI). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.

Alto Ingredients vs. Its Competitors

Alto Ingredients (NASDAQ:ALTO) and ARQ (NASDAQ:ARQ) are both small-cap chemicals companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.

42.4% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.5% of ARQ shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.9% of ARQ shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Alto Ingredients has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARQ has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500.

ARQ has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alto Ingredients. ARQ is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alto Ingredients, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alto Ingredients$965.26M0.08-$58.98M-$0.92-1.15
ARQ$108.96M2.90-$5.11M-$0.04-184.75

ARQ has a net margin of -1.40% compared to Alto Ingredients' net margin of -7.16%. ARQ's return on equity of -0.07% beat Alto Ingredients' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alto Ingredients-7.16% -18.78% -10.60%
ARQ -1.40%-0.07%-0.05%

In the previous week, ARQ had 7 more articles in the media than Alto Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for ARQ and 1 mentions for Alto Ingredients. ARQ's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Alto Ingredients' score of 0.00 indicating that ARQ is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Alto Ingredients
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
ARQ
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Alto Ingredients currently has a consensus price target of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 418.87%. ARQ has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.32%. Given Alto Ingredients' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Alto Ingredients is more favorable than ARQ.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alto Ingredients
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
ARQ
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.25

Summary

ARQ beats Alto Ingredients on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ALTO vs. The Competition

MetricAlto IngredientsCONSM PD IndustryDiscretionary SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$79.72M$2.36B$8.30B$9.59B
Dividend YieldN/A4.58%3.11%4.09%
P/E Ratio-1.1515.0518.1921.92
Price / Sales0.082.495.60121.31
Price / CashN/A15.2816.6358.48
Price / Book0.391.684.726.61
Net Income-$58.98M$106.49M$226.48M$265.56M
7 Day PerformanceN/A0.28%15.42%1.98%
1 Month Performance-14.52%-6.63%14.22%1.33%
1 Year Performance-24.29%-16.41%52.48%21.15%

Alto Ingredients Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ALTO
Alto Ingredients
3.7557 of 5 stars
$1.06
+2.9%
$5.50
+418.9%
-28.5%$79.72M$965.26M-1.15420Positive News
ARQ
ARQ
2.461 of 5 stars
$6.54
-1.2%
$10.00
+52.9%
+7.9%$279.44M$108.96M-130.80140
AMTX
Aemetis
2.3344 of 5 stars
$2.64
-1.1%
$17.00
+543.9%
-3.1%$168.85M$267.64M-1.63160Gap Up
ORGN
Origin Materials
2.2812 of 5 stars
$0.88
-3.6%
$1.50
+71.2%
-62.5%$136.26M$31.28M-1.31160
VGAS
Verde Clean Fuels
0.2761 of 5 stars
$2.69
-2.2%
N/A-30.5%$122.51MN/A-5.602Positive News
Gap Up
LODE
Comstock
1.6435 of 5 stars
$3.05
-3.8%
$19.00
+523.0%
+39.9%$98.87M$3.38M-25.4130Analyst Revision
ZTEK
Zentek
0.3393 of 5 stars
$0.86
+2.5%
N/A-27.0%$87.96M$1.22M-14.3524News Coverage
Short Interest ↑
LOOP
Loop Industries
1.6764 of 5 stars
$1.58
-3.1%
N/A+0.0%$77.78M$10.89M-5.6490Short Interest ↑
LNZA
LanzaTech Global
1.7068 of 5 stars
$0.34
+4.8%
$2.00
+482.2%
-87.1%$76.01M$49.59M-0.513News Coverage
Stock Split
Short Interest ↑
Analyst Revision
TSE
Trinseo
1.7864 of 5 stars
$2.06
-0.2%
N/A-34.8%$74.06M$3.51B-0.192,950Positive News
FSI
Flexible Solutions International
3.9581 of 5 stars
$5.48
-0.9%
N/A+172.6%$69.30M$36.48M16.6040News Coverage
Analyst Revision

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This page (NASDAQ:ALTO) was last updated on 8/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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