ASTC vs. AIRI, ASTR, AZ, SIDU, MNTS, PRZO, BNGO, HOVR, OPXS, and XTIA
Should you be buying Astrotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Astrotech include Air Industries Group (AIRI), Astra Space (ASTR), A2Z Smart Technologies (AZ), Sidus Space (SIDU), Momentus (MNTS), ParaZero Technologies (PRZO), Bionano Genomics (BNGO), New Horizon Aircraft (HOVR), Optex Systems (OPXS), and XTI Aerospace (XTIA).
Air Industries Group (NYSE:AIRI) and Astrotech (NASDAQ:ASTC) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment and profitability.
Astrotech received 128 more outperform votes than Air Industries Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.64% of users gave Astrotech an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Air Industries Group an outperform vote.
Air Industries Group has higher revenue and earnings than Astrotech. Air Industries Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Astrotech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Air Industries Group has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Astrotech has a beta of -0.17, suggesting that its stock price is 117% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Air Industries Group had 1 more articles in the media than Astrotech. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Air Industries Group and 1 mentions for Astrotech. Astrotech's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Air Industries Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Air Industries Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
42.7% of Air Industries Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.4% of Astrotech shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.2% of Air Industries Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.5% of Astrotech shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Air Industries Group has a net margin of -4.14% compared to Air Industries Group's net margin of -515.23%. Astrotech's return on equity of -13.61% beat Air Industries Group's return on equity.
Summary
Air Industries Group beats Astrotech on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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