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ASTC vs. CLIR, DAIO, MSAI, PRPO, STAI, BNGO, TLIS, SMIT, TBIO, and SPEC

Should you be buying Astrotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Astrotech include ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), Data I/O (DAIO), MultiSensor AI (MSAI), Precipio (PRPO), ScanTech AI Systems (STAI), Bionano Genomics (BNGO), Talis Biomedical (TLIS), Schmitt Industries (SMIT), Telesis Bio (TBIO), and Spectaire (SPEC). These companies are all part of the "measuring and control equipment" industry.

Astrotech vs. Its Competitors

ClearSign Technologies (NASDAQ:CLIR) and Astrotech (NASDAQ:ASTC) are both small-cap measuring and control equipment companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

ClearSign Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Astrotech. ClearSign Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Astrotech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
ClearSign Technologies$3.60M8.67-$5.30M-$0.12-4.96
Astrotech$1.66M5.62-$11.67M-$8.42-0.66

ClearSign Technologies has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Astrotech has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, ClearSign Technologies and ClearSign Technologies both had 1 articles in the media. Astrotech's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat ClearSign Technologies' score of 1.32 indicating that Astrotech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
ClearSign Technologies Positive
Astrotech Very Positive

ClearSign Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 235.80%. Given ClearSign Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe ClearSign Technologies is more favorable than Astrotech.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
ClearSign Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Astrotech
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

24.0% of ClearSign Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.4% of Astrotech shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of ClearSign Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.9% of Astrotech shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

ClearSign Technologies has a net margin of -216.48% compared to Astrotech's net margin of -1,536.99%. ClearSign Technologies' return on equity of -44.36% beat Astrotech's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ClearSign Technologies-216.48% -44.36% -38.35%
Astrotech -1,536.99%-46.37%-42.51%

Summary

ClearSign Technologies beats Astrotech on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ASTC vs. The Competition

MetricAstrotechAEROSP/DEF EQ IndustryAerospace SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$9.52M$17.94B$27.50B$9.51B
Dividend YieldN/A0.74%0.96%4.01%
P/E Ratio-0.66132.4284.4720.06
Price / Sales5.626.936.7588.51
Price / CashN/A47.3636.2858.56
Price / Book0.277.688.685.87
Net Income-$11.67M$265.73M$368.78M$258.55M
7 Day Performance0.27%-1.66%-1.39%3.73%
1 Month Performance-2.90%5.27%6.57%11.75%
1 Year Performance-35.08%76.66%51.22%18.02%

Astrotech Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ASTC
Astrotech
1.7181 of 5 stars
$5.53
-1.7%
N/A-36.2%$9.52M$1.66M-0.6610Positive News
CLIR
ClearSign Technologies
2.3354 of 5 stars
$0.60
+1.7%
$2.00
+236.1%
-29.9%$30.67M$3.60M-4.9610Positive News
Gap Down
DAIO
Data I/O
2.6541 of 5 stars
$3.18
flat
$5.22
+64.2%
+19.4%$29.38M$21.77M-10.97100News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
MSAI
MultiSensor AI
3.3371 of 5 stars
$0.71
-5.4%
$2.50
+251.6%
-44.7%$25.13M$7.40M0.0035Analyst Forecast
PRPO
Precipio
1.1813 of 5 stars
$13.80
-0.7%
N/A+184.5%$21.02M$18.53M-6.6760Positive News
STAI
ScanTech AI Systems
N/A$0.67
-2.9%
N/AN/A$17.57M$540K0.00N/APositive News
Earnings Report
Gap Up
BNGO
Bionano Genomics
2.4006 of 5 stars
$3.53
+1.1%
$7.00
+98.3%
-90.6%$11.74M$30.78M-0.03300Positive News
High Trading Volume
TLIS
Talis Biomedical
N/A$1.25
flat
N/A-83.7%$2.28M$300K-0.04260
SMIT
Schmitt Industries
N/A$0.02
flat
N/AN/A$82K$9.89M0.00160
TBIO
Telesis Bio
N/A$0.02
-9.5%
N/A-99.4%$40K$225.09M0.00200Gap Up
SPEC
Spectaire
N/A$0.00
+50.0%
N/A-99.9%$6KN/A0.008Gap Up

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