LOOP vs. SLI, GURE, NGVT, PQG, GCP, LTHM, FMC, OLN, ASH, and BCPC
Should you be buying Loop Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Loop Industries include Standard Lithium (SLI), Gulf Resources (GURE), Ingevity (NGVT), PQ Group (PQG), GCP Applied Technologies (GCP), Livent (LTHM), FMC (FMC), Olin (OLN), Ashland (ASH), and Balchem (BCPC).
Loop Industries (NASDAQ:LOOP) and Standard Lithium (NYSE:SLI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Loop Industries received 122 more outperform votes than Standard Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Standard Lithium an outperform vote while only 66.85% of users gave Loop Industries an outperform vote.
Loop Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Lithium. Standard Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Loop Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Loop Industries currently has a consensus target price of $7.50, suggesting a potential upside of 183.02%. Standard Lithium has a consensus target price of $3.50, suggesting a potential upside of 108.33%. Given Loop Industries' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Loop Industries is more favorable than Standard Lithium.
Standard Lithium has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Loop Industries' net margin of -13,859.87%. Standard Lithium's return on equity of -36.48% beat Loop Industries' return on equity.
In the previous week, Loop Industries had 9 more articles in the media than Standard Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Loop Industries and 1 mentions for Standard Lithium. Loop Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Standard Lithium's score of 0.00 indicating that Loop Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
4.9% of Loop Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.8% of Standard Lithium shares are held by institutional investors. 49.8% of Loop Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Standard Lithium shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Loop Industries has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Standard Lithium has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Loop Industries beats Standard Lithium on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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