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Astrotech (ASTC) Competitors

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$6.93 +0.08 (+1.17%)
(As of 04:12 PM ET)

ASTC vs. AATC, RPID, AXDX, DAIO, BNGO, PRPO, TLIS, TBIO, SPEC, and THMO

Should you be buying Astrotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Astrotech include Autoscope Technologies (AATC), Rapid Micro Biosystems (RPID), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX), Data I/O (DAIO), Bionano Genomics (BNGO), Precipio (PRPO), Talis Biomedical (TLIS), Telesis Bio (TBIO), Spectaire (SPEC), and ThermoGenesis (THMO). These companies are all part of the "measuring and control equipment" industry.

Astrotech vs.

Autoscope Technologies (NASDAQ:AATC) and Astrotech (NASDAQ:ASTC) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.

24.4% of Astrotech shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of Autoscope Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.9% of Astrotech shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Autoscope Technologies has a net margin of 37.59% compared to Astrotech's net margin of -945.17%. Autoscope Technologies' return on equity of 27.06% beat Astrotech's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Autoscope Technologies37.59% 27.06% 23.97%
Astrotech -945.17%-33.26%-31.03%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Autoscope Technologies$12.89M3.44$6.62M$0.889.19
Astrotech$1.27M8.96-$11.67M-$7.34-0.91

Autoscope Technologies has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Astrotech has a beta of -0.2, meaning that its share price is 120% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Astrotech had 3 more articles in the media than Autoscope Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Astrotech and 0 mentions for Autoscope Technologies. Astrotech's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Autoscope Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Astrotech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Autoscope Technologies Neutral
Astrotech Positive

Astrotech received 128 more outperform votes than Autoscope Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.64% of users gave Astrotech an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Autoscope Technologies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Autoscope TechnologiesOutperform Votes
No Votes
Underperform Votes
1
100.00%
AstrotechOutperform Votes
128
56.64%
Underperform Votes
98
43.36%

Summary

Autoscope Technologies beats Astrotech on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ASTC vs. The Competition

MetricAstrotechAnalytical instruments IndustryAerospace SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$11.40M$5.30B$18.05B$9.26B
Dividend YieldN/A0.43%1.31%4.28%
P/E Ratio-0.9125.3437.1517.31
Price / Sales8.964.2726.90123.48
Price / CashN/A44.4530.1737.82
Price / Book0.332.235.805.02
Net Income-$11.67M$2.05M$463.64M$225.13M
7 Day Performance-7.07%-0.62%5.14%5.06%
1 Month Performance-13.10%-6.01%7.86%3.08%
1 Year Performance-17.59%-30.11%44.60%17.96%

Astrotech Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ASTC
Astrotech
0.9303 of 5 stars
$6.93
+1.2%
N/A-15.7%$11.80M$1.27M-0.9410Short Interest ↑
AATC
Autoscope Technologies
N/A$7.99
+1.2%
N/A+14.0%$43.71M$12.89M9.0740
RPID
Rapid Micro Biosystems
1.6877 of 5 stars
$0.90
flat
N/A+5.2%$38.73M$26.17M-0.80193Short Interest ↑
Gap Up
AXDX
Accelerate Diagnostics
3.8364 of 5 stars
$1.15
-0.9%
$1.00
-13.1%
-75.3%$28.80M$11.91M-0.40134Short Interest ↓
DAIO
Data I/O
1.6272 of 5 stars
$2.73
-2.5%
$4.00
+46.5%
-9.8%$25.21M$23.46M-14.37100Short Interest ↑
BNGO
Bionano Genomics
1.5948 of 5 stars
$0.20
+2.8%
$1.50
+648.5%
-88.0%$20.44M$33.33M-0.09300Short Interest ↑
PRPO
Precipio
1.5943 of 5 stars
$5.27
flat
N/A-22.3%$7.81M$17.41M-2.8860Short Interest ↓
TLIS
Talis Biomedical
N/A$1.72
-6.5%
N/A-79.4%$3.14M$300,000.00-0.06260
TBIO
Telesis Bio
N/A$0.38
-19.1%
N/A-94.6%$675,000.00$225.09M-0.01200News Coverage
Gap Down
SPEC
Spectaire
N/A$0.02
-0.6%
N/A-99.0%$311,000.00N/A0.008Gap Down
THMO
ThermoGenesis
N/A$0.00
+20.0%
N/A-99.9%$5,000.00$9.61M0.0025

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This page (NASDAQ:ASTC) was last updated on 12/26/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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