NN vs. LUNR, IPAX, CODA, MIND, NOC, LHX, GRMN, TDY, NXT, and DRS
Should you be buying NextNav stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NextNav include Intuitive Machines (LUNR), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Coda Octopus Group (CODA), MIND Technology (MIND), Northrop Grumman (NOC), L3Harris Technologies (LHX), Garmin (GRMN), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Nextracker (NXT), and Leonardo DRS (DRS). These companies are all part of the "search & navigation equipment" industry.
NextNav (NASDAQ:NN) and Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and community ranking.
Intuitive Machines has a consensus target price of $10.25, suggesting a potential upside of 96.74%. Given Intuitive Machines' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Intuitive Machines is more favorable than NextNav.
In the previous week, Intuitive Machines had 3 more articles in the media than NextNav. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Intuitive Machines and 3 mentions for NextNav. NextNav's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Intuitive Machines' score of 1.44 indicating that NextNav is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Intuitive Machines has higher revenue and earnings than NextNav. NextNav is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuitive Machines, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intuitive Machines has a net margin of -19.48% compared to NextNav's net margin of -2,133.30%. Intuitive Machines' return on equity of -2.04% beat NextNav's return on equity.
NextNav has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intuitive Machines has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
79.2% of NextNav shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Intuitive Machines shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.3% of NextNav shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 73.7% of Intuitive Machines shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Intuitive Machines received 19 more outperform votes than NextNav when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave Intuitive Machines an outperform vote while only 44.44% of users gave NextNav an outperform vote.
Summary
Intuitive Machines beats NextNav on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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