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ASTC vs. CLIR, MSAI, DAIO, AXDX, BNGO, PRPO, STAI, TLIS, TBIO, and SMIT

Should you be buying Astrotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Astrotech include ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), MultiSensor AI (MSAI), Data I/O (DAIO), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX), Bionano Genomics (BNGO), Precipio (PRPO), Scantech AI Systems (STAI), Talis Biomedical (TLIS), Telesis Bio (TBIO), and Schmitt Industries (SMIT). These companies are all part of the "measuring and control equipment" industry.

Astrotech vs.

Astrotech (NASDAQ:ASTC) and ClearSign Technologies (NASDAQ:CLIR) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk and valuation.

ClearSign Technologies has a net margin of -118.93% compared to Astrotech's net margin of -3,198.09%. Astrotech's return on equity of -40.44% beat ClearSign Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Astrotech-3,198.09% -40.44% -37.41%
ClearSign Technologies -118.93%-50.44%-41.41%

ClearSign Technologies received 25 more outperform votes than Astrotech when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.64% of users gave Astrotech an outperform vote while only 41.02% of users gave ClearSign Technologies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AstrotechOutperform Votes
128
56.64%
Underperform Votes
98
43.36%
ClearSign TechnologiesOutperform Votes
153
41.02%
Underperform Votes
220
58.98%

Astrotech has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ClearSign Technologies has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, ClearSign Technologies had 3 more articles in the media than Astrotech. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ClearSign Technologies and 1 mentions for Astrotech. Astrotech's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat ClearSign Technologies' score of 0.93 indicating that Astrotech is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Astrotech Very Positive
ClearSign Technologies Positive

ClearSign Technologies has a consensus price target of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 250.88%. Given ClearSign Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ClearSign Technologies is more favorable than Astrotech.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Astrotech
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
ClearSign Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

ClearSign Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Astrotech. ClearSign Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Astrotech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Astrotech$419K24.07-$11.67M-$8.17-0.73
ClearSign Technologies$3.60M8.31-$5.19M-$0.11-5.18

24.4% of Astrotech shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.0% of ClearSign Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 14.9% of Astrotech shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of ClearSign Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

ClearSign Technologies beats Astrotech on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ASTC vs. The Competition

MetricAstrotechAnalytical instruments IndustryAerospace SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$10.25M$4.12B$19.71B$7.80B
Dividend YieldN/A0.60%1.29%4.31%
P/E Ratio-0.7326.9649.3718.40
Price / Sales24.074.215.49101.29
Price / CashN/A36.1129.7634.62
Price / Book0.291.765.304.18
Net Income-$11.67M-$83.57M$324.21M$247.71M
7 Day Performance1.11%3.08%3.77%6.61%
1 Month Performance-9.26%-0.21%-3.20%-2.21%
1 Year Performance-34.96%-32.19%22.64%4.68%

Astrotech Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ASTC
Astrotech
0.2721 of 5 stars
$5.93
-1.6%
N/A-36.6%$10.25M$419,000.00-0.7310
CLIR
ClearSign Technologies
2.1537 of 5 stars
$0.58
-1.7%
$2.00
+244.8%
-30.7%$30.40M$3.60M-5.2710Gap Up
MSAI
MultiSensor AI
2.4545 of 5 stars
$0.79
+0.1%
$2.50
+216.5%
-69.4%$26.03M$7.40M0.0035
DAIO
Data I/O
1.3417 of 5 stars
$2.06
+3.5%
$4.00
+94.2%
-35.2%$19.03M$21.77M-10.84100Earnings Report
News Coverage
Negative News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
AXDX
Accelerate Diagnostics
2.4771 of 5 stars
$0.57
+6.7%
N/A-40.8%$14.26M$11.70M-0.20220News Coverage
Gap Down
BNGO
Bionano Genomics
1.0279 of 5 stars
$4.00
flat
$44.67
+1,016.7%
-90.6%$12.03M$30.78M-0.03300
PRPO
Precipio
1.5045 of 5 stars
$5.45
+4.0%
N/A-2.3%$8.20M$18.53M-2.9860News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
STAI
Scantech AI Systems
N/A$1.69
-2.3%
N/AN/A$7.56M$522,166.000.00N/A
TLIS
Talis Biomedical
N/A$1.60
-5.9%
N/A-82.0%$2.92M$300,000.00-0.06260Gap Down
TBIO
Telesis Bio
N/A$0.84
-8.9%
N/A-84.9%$1.51M$225.09M-0.03200Gap Down
SMIT
Schmitt Industries
N/A$0.02
flat
N/AN/A$72,000.00$9.89M0.00160

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This page (NASDAQ:ASTC) was last updated on 4/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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