Alto Ingredients (ALTO) Competitors

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

Do institutionals & insiders believe in LXFR or ALTO?

90.8% of Luxfer shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of Alto Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Luxfer shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of Alto Ingredients shares are owned by company 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.

Which has more risk & volatility, LXFR or ALTO?

Luxfer has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alto Ingredients has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its share price is 91% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is LXFR or ALTO more profitable?

Luxfer has a net margin of 2.37% compared to Alto Ingredients' net margin of -3.61%. Luxfer's return on equity of 9.26% beat Alto Ingredients' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Luxfer	2.37%	9.26%	5.13%
Alto Ingredients	-3.61%	-11.22%	-6.96%

Do analysts recommend LXFR or ALTO?

Alto Ingredients has a consensus price target of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 237.42%. Given Alto Ingredients' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alto Ingredients is more favorable than Luxfer.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Luxfer	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Alto Ingredients	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the MarketBeat Community favor LXFR or ALTO?

Luxfer received 278 more outperform votes than Alto Ingredients when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.36% of users gave Luxfer an outperform vote while only 38.46% of users gave Alto Ingredients an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Luxfer	Outperform Votes 288 66.36%	Underperform Votes 146 33.64%
Alto Ingredients	Outperform Votes 10 38.46%	Underperform Votes 16 61.54%

Does the media prefer LXFR or ALTO?

In the previous week, Luxfer and Luxfer both had 2 articles in the media. Alto Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Luxfer's score of -0.44 indicating that Alto Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Luxfer	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
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

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, LXFR or ALTO?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Luxfer	$405M	0.88	-$1.90M	$0.33	40.15
Alto Ingredients	$1.00B	0.12	-$28M	-$0.52	-3.13

Summary

Luxfer beats Alto Ingredients on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.