LODE vs. ALTO, GAMC, TOMZ, CNEY, TANH, BAK, LYB, IFF, WLK, and NEU
Should you be buying Comstock stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Comstock include Alto Ingredients (ALTO), Golden Arrow Merger (GAMC), TOMI Environmental Solutions (TOMZ), CN Energy Group. (CNEY), Tantech (TANH), Braskem (BAK), LyondellBasell Industries (LYB), International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), Westlake (WLK), and NewMarket (NEU). These companies are all part of the "industrial organic chemicals" industry.
Alto Ingredients (NASDAQ:ALTO) and Comstock (NYSE:LODE) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Alto Ingredients currently has a consensus price target of $5.50, indicating a potential upside of 261.84%. Given Comstock's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Alto Ingredients is more favorable than Comstock.
In the previous week, Alto Ingredients and Alto Ingredients both had 5 articles in the media. Comstock's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Alto Ingredients' score of 0.36 indicating that Alto Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Comstock has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alto Ingredients. Alto Ingredients is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Comstock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Comstock has a net margin of 474.79% compared to Comstock's net margin of -2.31%. Alto Ingredients' return on equity of -5.56% beat Comstock's return on equity.
Alto Ingredients has a beta of 1.92, meaning that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Comstock has a beta of 2.04, meaning that its share price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500.
42.4% of Alto Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.0% of Comstock shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of Alto Ingredients shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Comstock shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alto Ingredients received 9 more outperform votes than Comstock when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 36.00% of users gave Alto Ingredients an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Comstock an outperform vote.
Summary
Comstock beats Alto Ingredients on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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