EKSO vs. PDYN, AZ, KITT, TAYD, AIMC, SYM, NDSN, RRX, ESAB, and ATS
Should you be buying Ekso Bionics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ekso Bionics include Palladyne AI (PDYN), A2Z Smart Technologies (AZ), Nauticus Robotics (KITT), Taylor Devices (TAYD), Altra Industrial Motion (AIMC), Symbotic (SYM), Nordson (NDSN), Regal Rexnord (RRX), ESAB (ESAB), and ATS (ATS). These companies are all part of the "general industrial machinery," industry.
Palladyne AI (NASDAQ:PDYN) and Ekso Bionics (NASDAQ:EKSO) 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 analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.
Palladyne AI has a beta of 3.42, suggesting that its stock price is 242% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ekso Bionics has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ekso Bionics has a net margin of -79.48% compared to Ekso Bionics' net margin of -1,390.02%. Ekso Bionics' return on equity of -74.87% beat Palladyne AI's return on equity.
Ekso Bionics has higher revenue and earnings than Palladyne AI. Ekso Bionics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palladyne AI, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Palladyne AI had 2 more articles in the media than Ekso Bionics. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Palladyne AI and 1 mentions for Ekso Bionics. Ekso Bionics' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Palladyne AI's score of 0.34 indicating that Palladyne AI is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ekso Bionics received 318 more outperform votes than Palladyne AI when rated by MarketBeat users.
Ekso Bionics has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 809.09%. Given Palladyne AI's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ekso Bionics is more favorable than Palladyne AI.
26.0% of Palladyne AI shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.4% of Ekso Bionics shares are held by institutional investors. 12.0% of Palladyne AI shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Ekso Bionics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Palladyne AI and Ekso Bionics tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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