LUNA vs. SST, PMEC, ZTEK, ALOT, ARRW, ABLV, LOOP, RMGC, EXFY, and ALAR
Should you be buying Luna Innovations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luna Innovations include System1 (SST), Primech (PMEC), Zentek (ZTEK), AstroNova (ALOT), Arrowroot Acquisition (ARRW), Able View Global (ABLV), Loop Industries (LOOP), RMG Acquisition Corp. III (RMGC), Expensify (EXFY), and Alarum Technologies (ALAR). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Luna Innovations (NASDAQ:LUNA) and System1 (NYSE:SST) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
Luna Innovations has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, System1 has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Luna Innovations has higher earnings, but lower revenue than System1. Luna Innovations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than System1, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Luna Innovations received 196 more outperform votes than System1 when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.30% of users gave Luna Innovations an outperform vote while only 16.67% of users gave System1 an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Luna Innovations had 11 more articles in the media than System1. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Luna Innovations and 0 mentions for System1. System1's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Luna Innovations' score of 0.07 indicating that System1 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Luna Innovations has a net margin of -1.82% compared to System1's net margin of -45.74%. Luna Innovations' return on equity of 3.61% beat System1's return on equity.
Luna Innovations currently has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 197.18%. System1 has a consensus price target of $4.67, indicating a potential upside of 276.34%. Given System1's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe System1 is more favorable than Luna Innovations.
87.5% of Luna Innovations shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of System1 shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of Luna Innovations shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.3% of System1 shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Luna Innovations beats System1 on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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