ALOT vs. CRGO, FNGR, MAPS, NSTB, CPTK, ARRW, RMGC, ABLV, ZTEK, and ARQQ
Should you be buying AstroNova stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AstroNova include Freightos (CRGO), FingerMotion (FNGR), WM Technology (MAPS), Northern Star Investment Corp. II (NSTB), Crown Proptech Acquisitions (CPTK), Arrowroot Acquisition (ARRW), RMG Acquisition Corp. III (RMGC), Able View Global (ABLV), Zentek (ZTEK), and Arqit Quantum (ARQQ). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
AstroNova (NASDAQ:ALOT) and Freightos (NASDAQ:CRGO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
AstroNova has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freightos has a beta of -0.26, indicating that its stock price is 126% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, AstroNova had 4 more articles in the media than Freightos. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for AstroNova and 3 mentions for Freightos. Freightos' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat AstroNova's score of 0.62 indicating that Freightos is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
44.2% of AstroNova shares are held by institutional investors. 17.7% of AstroNova shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.6% of Freightos shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AstroNova has higher revenue and earnings than Freightos. Freightos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AstroNova, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AstroNova has a net margin of 2.26% compared to Freightos' net margin of -322.83%. AstroNova's return on equity of 7.10% beat Freightos' return on equity.
AstroNova received 218 more outperform votes than Freightos when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Freightos an outperform vote while only 69.16% of users gave AstroNova an outperform vote.
Summary
AstroNova beats Freightos on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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