Contrasting AMCI Acquisition (AMCI) & Its Peers

AMCI Acquisition (NASDAQ:AMCI) is one of 378 publicly-traded companies in the “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare AMCI Acquisition to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

46.1% of AMCI Acquisition shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.5% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are held by institutional investors. 27.0% of AMCI Acquisition shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.5% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for AMCI Acquisition and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AMCI Acquisition	1	0	0	0	1.00
AMCI Acquisition Competitors	1976	7484	10205	620	2.47

As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 16.98%. Given AMCI Acquisition’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe AMCI Acquisition has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Risk & Volatility

AMCI Acquisition has a beta of 0.27, meaning that its stock price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AMCI Acquisition’s competitors have a beta of -0.22, meaning that their average stock price is 122% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares AMCI Acquisition and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AMCI Acquisition	N/A	-377.98%	-186.45%
AMCI Acquisition Competitors	-184.51%	-150.56%	-6.97%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares AMCI Acquisition and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
AMCI Acquisition	$5.98 million	-$24.82 million	401.50
AMCI Acquisition Competitors	$4.06 billion	$191.30 million	-4.89

AMCI Acquisition’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than AMCI Acquisition. AMCI Acquisition is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

AMCI Acquisition competitors beat AMCI Acquisition on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

AMCI Acquisition Company Profile

AMCI Acquisition Corp. does not have significant operations. It intends to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses operating in the natural resource infrastructure, value chain, and logistics-related sectors. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.