LUNA vs. PMTS, NOTE, BLDE, MVST, MOND, III, LSAK, RCMT, OB, and BKSY
Should you be buying Luna Innovations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luna Innovations include CPI Card Group (PMTS), FiscalNote (NOTE), Blade Air Mobility (BLDE), Microvast (MVST), Mondee (MOND), Information Services Group (III), Lesaka Technologies (LSAK), RCM Technologies (RCMT), Outbrain (OB), and BlackSky Technology (BKSY). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Luna Innovations (NASDAQ:LUNA) and CPI Card Group (NASDAQ:PMTS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
CPI Card Group has higher revenue and earnings than Luna Innovations. Luna Innovations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CPI Card Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Luna Innovations received 170 more outperform votes than CPI Card Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 84.85% of users gave CPI Card Group an outperform vote while only 61.49% of users gave Luna Innovations an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Luna Innovations had 21 more articles in the media than CPI Card Group. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Luna Innovations and 3 mentions for CPI Card Group. CPI Card Group's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Luna Innovations' score of 0.14 indicating that CPI Card Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CPI Card Group has a net margin of 5.40% compared to Luna Innovations' net margin of -1.82%. Luna Innovations' return on equity of 3.61% beat CPI Card Group's return on equity.
53.8% of Luna Innovations shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.9% of CPI Card Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of Luna Innovations shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of CPI Card Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Luna Innovations has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CPI Card Group has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Luna Innovations presently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 166.67%. CPI Card Group has a consensus target price of $35.50, indicating a potential upside of 106.16%. Given Luna Innovations' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Luna Innovations is more favorable than CPI Card Group.
Summary
CPI Card Group beats Luna Innovations on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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