ASTC vs. AATC, OPXS, CLIR, MSAI, AXDX, DAIO, PRPO, STAI, BNGO, and TLIS
Should you be buying Astrotech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Astrotech include Autoscope Technologies (AATC), Optex Systems (OPXS), ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), MultiSensor AI (MSAI), Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX), Data I/O (DAIO), Precipio (PRPO), Scantech AI Systems (STAI), Bionano Genomics (BNGO), and Talis Biomedical (TLIS). 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 stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Astrotech had 4 more articles in the media than Autoscope Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Astrotech and 0 mentions for Autoscope Technologies. Astrotech's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Autoscope Technologies' score of 0.00 indicating that Astrotech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Autoscope Technologies has a net margin of 37.59% compared to Astrotech's net margin of -3,198.09%. Autoscope Technologies' return on equity of 27.06% beat Astrotech's return on equity.
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.
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.
24.4% of Astrotech shares are held by institutional investors. 21.6% of Autoscope Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.9% of Astrotech shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Autoscope Technologies has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Astrotech has a beta of -0.17, suggesting that its share price is 117% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Autoscope Technologies beats Astrotech on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ASTC) was last updated on 3/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
