FF vs. FTK, SHW, ECL, IFF, CE, ALB, RPM, NEU, ASH, and BCPC
Should you be buying FutureFuel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FutureFuel include Flotek Industries (FTK), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Ecolab (ECL), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Celanese (CE), Albemarle (ALB), RPM International (RPM), NewMarket (NEU), Ashland (ASH), and Balchem (BCPC). These companies are all part of the "specialty chemicals" industry.
FutureFuel (NYSE:FF) and Flotek Industries (NYSE:FTK) are both small-cap oils/energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, risk and dividends.
FutureFuel currently has a consensus target price of $0.80, indicating a potential downside of 81.31%. Flotek Industries has a consensus target price of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 64.32%. Given Flotek Industries' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Flotek Industries is more favorable than FutureFuel.
FutureFuel has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flotek Industries has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
FutureFuel has a net margin of 5.86% compared to Flotek Industries' net margin of 2.73%. FutureFuel's return on equity of 7.46% beat Flotek Industries' return on equity.
FutureFuel has higher revenue and earnings than Flotek Industries. FutureFuel is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Flotek Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
44.6% of FutureFuel shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.9% of Flotek Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.9% of FutureFuel shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Flotek Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Flotek Industries received 46 more outperform votes than FutureFuel when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.22% of users gave FutureFuel an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave Flotek Industries an outperform vote.
In the previous week, FutureFuel had 4 more articles in the media than Flotek Industries. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for FutureFuel and 1 mentions for Flotek Industries. Flotek Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat FutureFuel's score of 0.15 indicating that Flotek Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
FutureFuel beats Flotek Industries on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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