ALOT vs. BKKT, LOOP, CRGO, RMGC, RDCM, VERI, ARBE, VCSA, MVST, and INVE
Should you be buying AstroNova stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AstroNova include Bakkt (BKKT), Loop Industries (LOOP), Freightos (CRGO), RMG Acquisition Corp. III (RMGC), RADCOM (RDCM), Veritone (VERI), Arbe Robotics (ARBE), Vacasa (VCSA), Microvast (MVST), and Identiv (INVE).
Bakkt (NYSE:BKKT) and AstroNova (NASDAQ:ALOT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Bakkt presently has a consensus price target of $0.53, suggesting a potential upside of 42.39%. Given AstroNova's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Bakkt is more favorable than AstroNova.
AstroNova received 214 more outperform votes than Bakkt when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.16% of users gave AstroNova an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Bakkt an outperform vote.
Bakkt has a beta of 4.12, suggesting that its share price is 312% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AstroNova has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bakkt had 3 more articles in the media than AstroNova. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Bakkt and 2 mentions for AstroNova. AstroNova's average media sentiment score of 0.04 beat Bakkt's score of 0.00 indicating that Bakkt is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AstroNova has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bakkt. Bakkt is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AstroNova, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
11.1% of Bakkt shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.0% of AstroNova shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Bakkt shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of AstroNova shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AstroNova has a net margin of 3.17% compared to AstroNova's net margin of -9.59%. Bakkt's return on equity of 8.28% beat AstroNova's return on equity.
Summary
AstroNova beats Bakkt on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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