SLI vs. ECVT, PRM, LOOP, GURE, FMC, OLN, ASH, BCPC, HUN, and CC
Should you be buying Standard Lithium stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Standard Lithium include Ecovyst (ECVT), Perimeter Solutions (PRM), Loop Industries (LOOP), Gulf Resources (GURE), FMC (FMC), Olin (OLN), Ashland (ASH), Balchem (BCPC), Huntsman (HUN), and Chemours (CC). These companies are all part of the "chemicals & allied products" industry.
Standard Lithium (NYSE:SLI) and Ecovyst (NYSE:ECVT) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Standard Lithium currently has a consensus price target of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 108.33%. Ecovyst has a consensus price target of $14.67, indicating a potential upside of 57.71%. Given Standard Lithium's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Standard Lithium is more favorable than Ecovyst.
Standard Lithium has a beta of 1.81, meaning that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ecovyst has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
16.8% of Standard Lithium shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of Ecovyst shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Standard Lithium shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Ecovyst shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Ecovyst had 1 more articles in the media than Standard Lithium. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Ecovyst and 1 mentions for Standard Lithium. Ecovyst's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Standard Lithium's score of 0.00 indicating that Ecovyst is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ecovyst has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Lithium. Standard Lithium is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ecovyst, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ecovyst has a net margin of 10.70% compared to Standard Lithium's net margin of 0.00%. Ecovyst's return on equity of 10.83% beat Standard Lithium's return on equity.
Ecovyst received 11 more outperform votes than Standard Lithium when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Standard Lithium an outperform vote while only 35.29% of users gave Ecovyst an outperform vote.
Summary
Ecovyst beats Standard Lithium on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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