I had a look at PLS' book, and I could see that you are right that PLS has outperformed AKE in the share price front. I don't know enough in other fronts.
AKE currently has 344,200,000 Shares Outstanding and trading at about $ 8.87 per share. PLS currently has 2,899,000,000 Shares Outstanding and trading at about $2.51 per share.
That means, if PLS' Shares Outstanding is consolidated to the same amount as AKE's, then PLS' share price actually is trading at about: (2899 million : 344.2 million) x $2.51 = $ 21.15 per share.
That is amazing. No wonder the crowd over there gets the warm fuzzy feeling as you said.
But is that current valuation reasonable and sustainable? I wonder.
One thing I am sure now is how cheap AKE actually is compared to PLS. So I will stick around.
AKE Price at posting:
$8.87 Sentiment: None Disclosure: Held