LUNA vs. SKYX, SHIM, BKKT, FAAS, RCAT, BGSF, XBP, ZENV, AIXI, and CCRD
Should you be buying Luna Innovations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Luna Innovations include SKYX Platforms (SKYX), Shimmick (SHIM), Bakkt (BKKT), DigiAsia (FAAS), Red Cat (RCAT), BGSF (BGSF), XBP Europe (XBP), Zenvia (ZENV), Xiao-I (AIXI), and CoreCard (CCRD). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Luna Innovations (NASDAQ:LUNA) and SKYX Platforms (NASDAQ:SKYX) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Luna Innovations has higher revenue and earnings than SKYX Platforms. Luna Innovations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SKYX Platforms, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
87.5% of Luna Innovations shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.8% of SKYX Platforms shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of Luna Innovations shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.2% of SKYX Platforms shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Luna Innovations received 195 more outperform votes than SKYX Platforms when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave SKYX Platforms an outperform vote while only 61.23% of users gave Luna Innovations an outperform vote.
Luna Innovations has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SKYX Platforms has a beta of -2609.1, indicating that its share price is 261,010% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Luna Innovations had 15 more articles in the media than SKYX Platforms. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Luna Innovations and 3 mentions for SKYX Platforms. Luna Innovations' average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat SKYX Platforms' score of -0.20 indicating that Luna Innovations is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Luna Innovations currently has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 232.23%. SKYX Platforms has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 395.05%. Given SKYX Platforms' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SKYX Platforms is more favorable than Luna Innovations.
Luna Innovations has a net margin of -1.82% compared to SKYX Platforms' net margin of -53.31%. Luna Innovations' return on equity of 3.61% beat SKYX Platforms' return on equity.
Summary
Luna Innovations beats SKYX Platforms on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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