LODE vs. ORGN, TSE, AMTX, SDST, ALTO, VGAS, ZTEK, BLGO, CBUS, and LOOP
Should you be buying Comstock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Comstock include Origin Materials (ORGN), Trinseo (TSE), Aemetis (AMTX), Stardust Power (SDST), Alto Ingredients (ALTO), Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), Zentek (ZTEK), BioLargo (BLGO), Cibus (CBUS), and Loop Industries (LOOP). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
Comstock vs.
Origin Materials (NASDAQ:ORGN) and Comstock (NYSE:LODE) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Origin Materials currently has a consensus target price of $1.50, suggesting a potential upside of 40.19%. Comstock has a consensus target price of $2.60, suggesting a potential upside of 768.69%. Given Comstock's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Comstock is more favorable than Origin Materials.
Origin Materials has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comstock has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Origin Materials and Origin Materials both had 4 articles in the media. Comstock's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Origin Materials' score of -0.56 indicating that Comstock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Origin Materials received 57 more outperform votes than Comstock when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.42% of users gave Origin Materials an outperform vote while only 1.92% of users gave Comstock an outperform vote.
29.9% of Origin Materials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.0% of Comstock shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of Origin Materials shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Comstock shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Origin Materials has higher revenue and earnings than Comstock. Comstock is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Origin Materials, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Origin Materials has a net margin of -229.52% compared to Comstock's net margin of -1,210.13%. Origin Materials' return on equity of -21.26% beat Comstock's return on equity.
Summary
Origin Materials beats Comstock on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:LODE) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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