ASTC vs. CLIR, MSAI, DAIO, BNGO, PRPO, STAI, TLIS, AXDX, SMIT, and SPEC
Should you be buying Astrotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Astrotech include ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), MultiSensor AI (MSAI), Data I/O (DAIO), Bionano Genomics (BNGO), Precipio (PRPO), Scantech AI Systems (STAI), Talis Biomedical (TLIS), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX), Schmitt Industries (SMIT), and Spectaire (SPEC). These companies are all part of the "measuring and control equipment" industry.
Astrotech vs.
Astrotech (NASDAQ:ASTC) and ClearSign Technologies (NASDAQ:CLIR) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, earnings and analyst recommendations.
ClearSign Technologies received 25 more outperform votes than Astrotech when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.64% of users gave Astrotech an outperform vote while only 40.58% of users gave ClearSign Technologies an outperform vote.
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.
Astrotech has a beta of 0.22, meaning that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ClearSign Technologies has a beta of 1.16, meaning that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ClearSign Technologies had 1 more articles in the media than Astrotech. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ClearSign Technologies and 3 mentions for Astrotech. ClearSign Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Astrotech's score of -0.23 indicating that ClearSign Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
24.4% of Astrotech shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.0% of ClearSign Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 14.9% of Astrotech shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of ClearSign Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ClearSign Technologies has a net margin of -118.93% compared to Astrotech's net margin of -3,198.09%. Astrotech's return on equity of -40.44% beat ClearSign Technologies' return on equity.
ClearSign Technologies has a consensus price target of $2.00, indicating a potential upside of 181.69%. Given ClearSign Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ClearSign Technologies is more favorable than Astrotech.
Summary
ClearSign Technologies beats Astrotech on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ASTC) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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