FTEK vs. PPIH, CECE, DCI, CECO, MNTX, TSE, UFI, ARC, HURC, and ACNT
Should you be buying Fuel Tech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fuel Tech include Perma-Pipe International (PPIH), CECO Environmental (CECE), Donaldson (DCI), CECO Environmental (CECO), Manitex International (MNTX), Trinseo (TSE), Unifi (UFI), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Hurco Companies (HURC), and Ascent Industries (ACNT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Fuel Tech (NASDAQ:FTEK) and Perma-Pipe International (NASDAQ:PPIH) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Fuel Tech has a beta of 4.21, meaning that its stock price is 321% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Perma-Pipe International has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
20.9% of Fuel Tech shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.4% of Perma-Pipe International shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Fuel Tech shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Perma-Pipe International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Fuel Tech received 125 more outperform votes than Perma-Pipe International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.96% of users gave Perma-Pipe International an outperform vote while only 50.59% of users gave Fuel Tech an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Fuel Tech had 2 more articles in the media than Perma-Pipe International. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Fuel Tech and 3 mentions for Perma-Pipe International. Perma-Pipe International's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Fuel Tech's score of 0.78 indicating that Perma-Pipe International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fuel Tech presently has a consensus target price of $4.00, indicating a potential upside of 257.14%. Given Fuel Tech's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Fuel Tech is more favorable than Perma-Pipe International.
Perma-Pipe International has a net margin of 6.95% compared to Fuel Tech's net margin of -3.41%. Perma-Pipe International's return on equity of 17.70% beat Fuel Tech's return on equity.
Perma-Pipe International has higher revenue and earnings than Fuel Tech. Fuel Tech is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perma-Pipe International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Perma-Pipe International beats Fuel Tech on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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