KPLT vs. SPRU, OSI, HWKZ, MAPS, LCW, AAN, FPAY, URI, AER, and AL
Should you be buying Katapult stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Katapult include Spruce Power (SPRU), Osiris Acquisition (OSI), Hawks Acquisition (HWKZ), WM Technology (MAPS), Learn CW Investment (LCW), Aaron's (AAN), FlexShopper (FPAY), United Rentals (URI), AerCap (AER), and Air Lease (AL).
Katapult (NASDAQ:KPLT) and Spruce Power (NYSE:SPRU) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Katapult has a net margin of -12.30% compared to Spruce Power's net margin of -61.34%. Katapult's return on equity of 0.00% beat Spruce Power's return on equity.
Katapult presently has a consensus price target of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.99%. Given Katapult's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Katapult is more favorable than Spruce Power.
Katapult received 5 more outperform votes than Spruce Power when rated by MarketBeat users.
26.8% of Katapult shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.8% of Spruce Power shares are held by institutional investors. 40.0% of Katapult shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Spruce Power shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Katapult has higher revenue and earnings than Spruce Power. Katapult is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spruce Power, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Spruce Power had 5 more articles in the media than Katapult. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Spruce Power and 2 mentions for Katapult. Katapult's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Spruce Power's score of 0.31 indicating that Katapult is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Katapult has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spruce Power has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Katapult beats Spruce Power on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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