LUNR vs. MTAL, ATRO, DCO, SPCE, ASLE, TGI, PKE, RDW, SPIR, and EH
Should you be buying Intuitive Machines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intuitive Machines include Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Astronics (ATRO), Ducommun (DCO), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), AerSale (ASLE), Triumph Group (TGI), Park Aerospace (PKE), Redwire (RDW), Spire Global (SPIR), and EHang (EH).
Metals Acquisition (NYSE:MTAL) and Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.
Intuitive Machines has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Metals Acquisition.
Metals Acquisition presently has a consensus price target of $13.92, suggesting a potential downside of 2.61%. Intuitive Machines has a consensus price target of $10.25, suggesting a potential upside of 96.74%. Given Metals Acquisition's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Intuitive Machines is more favorable than Metals Acquisition.
Intuitive Machines has a net margin of 78.98% compared to Intuitive Machines' net margin of 0.00%. Intuitive Machines' return on equity of 0.00% beat Metals Acquisition's return on equity.
Intuitive Machines received 16 more outperform votes than Metals Acquisition when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave Intuitive Machines an outperform vote while only 85.71% of users gave Metals Acquisition an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Intuitive Machines had 18 more articles in the media than Metals Acquisition. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Intuitive Machines and 0 mentions for Metals Acquisition. Metals Acquisition's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Intuitive Machines' score of 0.00 indicating that Intuitive Machines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Metals Acquisition has a beta of 0.02, suggesting that its share price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intuitive Machines has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
87.5% of Metals Acquisition shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Intuitive Machines shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Metals Acquisition shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 73.7% of Intuitive Machines shares are held by 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
Intuitive Machines beats Metals Acquisition on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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