BLGO vs. LOOP, GURE, FMSTW, ORGNW, FSTR, ASPI, PLL, LZM, DC, and AVD
Should you be buying BioLargo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BioLargo include Loop Industries (LOOP), Gulf Resources (GURE), Foremost Lithium Resource & Technology (FMSTW), Origin Materials (ORGNW), L.B. Foster (FSTR), ASP Isotopes (ASPI), Piedmont Lithium (PLL), Lifezone Metals (LZM), Dakota Gold (DC), and American Vanguard (AVD).
Loop Industries (NASDAQ:LOOP) and BioLargo (NASDAQ:BLGO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
4.9% of Loop Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of BioLargo shares are owned by institutional investors. 49.8% of Loop Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of BioLargo shares are owned by company 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.
Loop Industries presently has a consensus target price of $7.50, indicating a potential upside of 183.02%. Given BioLargo's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Loop Industries is more favorable than BioLargo.
BioLargo has a net margin of 0.00% compared to BioLargo's net margin of -13,859.87%. Loop Industries' return on equity of 0.00% beat BioLargo's return on equity.
Loop Industries has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BioLargo has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Loop Industries had 10 more articles in the media than BioLargo. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Loop Industries and 0 mentions for BioLargo. BioLargo's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Loop Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Loop Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BioLargo has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Loop Industries. BioLargo 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 received 12 more outperform votes than BioLargo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.85% of users gave Loop Industries an outperform vote while only 60.99% of users gave BioLargo an outperform vote.
Summary
Loop Industries beats BioLargo on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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