AETI vs. HRT, DRTT, LASE, CBAT, DCFC, ADSEW, AERTW, AIRTP, POWWP, and BLDEW
Should you be buying American Electric Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of American Electric Technologies include HireRight (HRT), DIRTT Environmental Solutions (DRTT), Laser Photonics (LASE), CBAK Energy Technology (CBAT), Tritium DCFC (DCFC), ADS-TEC Energy (ADSEW), Aeries Technology (AERTW), Air T (AIRTP), AMMO (POWWP), and Blade Air Mobility (BLDEW). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
HireRight (NYSE:HRT) and American Electric Technologies (NASDAQ:AETI) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
HireRight has a net margin of 0.00% compared to HireRight's net margin of -1.24%. American Electric Technologies' return on equity of 0.00% beat HireRight's return on equity.
HireRight currently has a consensus price target of $12.50, suggesting a potential downside of 12.77%. Given American Electric Technologies' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe HireRight is more favorable than American Electric Technologies.
In the previous week, HireRight had 9 more articles in the media than American Electric Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for HireRight and 1 mentions for American Electric Technologies. American Electric Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat HireRight's score of 0.00 indicating that HireRight is being referred to more favorably in the media.
12.5% of HireRight shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.5% of American Electric Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 13.0% of HireRight shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.4% of American Electric Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HireRight has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Electric Technologies has a beta of -1.11, indicating that its share price is 211% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HireRight has higher revenue and earnings than American Electric Technologies.
American Electric Technologies received 179 more outperform votes than HireRight when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.50% of users gave American Electric Technologies an outperform vote while only 34.21% of users gave HireRight an outperform vote.
Summary
HireRight beats American Electric Technologies on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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