ATER vs. SUMR, NC, HELE, HBB, FAAS, SKYX, SSNT, ALLT, DOMA, and OCFT
Should you be buying Aterian stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aterian include Summer Infant (SUMR), NACCO Industries (NC), Helen of Troy (HELE), Hamilton Beach Brands (HBB), DigiAsia (FAAS), SKYX Platforms (SKYX), SilverSun Technologies (SSNT), Allot Communications (ALLT), Doma (DOMA), and OneConnect Financial Technology (OCFT).
Aterian (NASDAQ:ATER) and Summer Infant (NASDAQ:SUMR) 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 community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Summer Infant had 6 more articles in the media than Aterian. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Summer Infant and 2 mentions for Aterian. Aterian's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Summer Infant's score of 0.00 indicating that Aterian is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summer Infant received 339 more outperform votes than Aterian when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.67% of users gave Summer Infant an outperform vote while only 52.38% of users gave Aterian an outperform vote.
7.0% of Aterian shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.0% of Summer Infant shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Aterian shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Summer Infant shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Aterian has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Summer Infant has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summer Infant has a net margin of -4.99% compared to Aterian's net margin of -42.16%. Aterian's return on equity of -90.92% beat Summer Infant's return on equity.
Summer Infant has higher revenue and earnings than Aterian. Summer Infant is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aterian, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Summer Infant beats Aterian on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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