ALOT vs. ARBE, MRAM, MVST, LOOP, EXFY, VERI, AISP, CRGO, INVE, and RDCM
Should you be buying AstroNova stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AstroNova include Arbe Robotics (ARBE), Everspin Technologies (MRAM), Microvast (MVST), Loop Industries (LOOP), Expensify (EXFY), Veritone (VERI), Airship AI (AISP), Freightos (CRGO), Identiv (INVE), and RADCOM (RDCM).
Arbe Robotics (NASDAQ:ARBE) and AstroNova (NASDAQ:ALOT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Arbe Robotics has a beta of -0.08, suggesting that its stock price is 108% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AstroNova has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
33.4% of Arbe Robotics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.0% of AstroNova shares are held by institutional investors. 18.8% of AstroNova shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AstroNova has higher revenue and earnings than Arbe Robotics. Arbe Robotics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AstroNova, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, AstroNova had 3 more articles in the media than Arbe Robotics. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for AstroNova and 2 mentions for Arbe Robotics. AstroNova's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat Arbe Robotics' score of 1.39 indicating that Arbe Robotics is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AstroNova has a net margin of 3.17% compared to AstroNova's net margin of -2,959.18%. Arbe Robotics' return on equity of 8.28% beat AstroNova's return on equity.
AstroNova received 215 more outperform votes than Arbe Robotics when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.16% of users gave AstroNova an outperform vote while only 41.18% of users gave Arbe Robotics an outperform vote.
Summary
AstroNova beats Arbe Robotics on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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