LUNR vs. MTAL, NN, IPAX, CODA, LGST, AKLI, GETR, MIND, BOWL, and NOC
Should you be buying Intuitive Machines stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intuitive Machines include Metals Acquisition (MTAL), NextNav (NN), Inflection Point Acquisition (IPAX), Coda Octopus Group (CODA), Semper Paratus Acquisition (LGST), Akili (AKLI), Getaround (GETR), MIND Technology (MIND), Bowlero (BOWL), and Northrop Grumman (NOC).
Metals Acquisition (NYSE:MTAL) and Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Metals Acquisition presently has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.72%. Intuitive Machines has a consensus target price of $10.25, suggesting a potential upside of 104.59%. Given Metals Acquisition's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Intuitive Machines is more favorable than Metals Acquisition.
Intuitive Machines received 16 more outperform votes than Metals Acquisition when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 100.00% of users gave Intuitive Machines an outperform vote while only 77.78% of users gave Metals Acquisition an outperform vote.
Metals Acquisition has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Metals Acquisition's net margin of -19.48%. Intuitive Machines' return on equity of 0.00% beat Metals Acquisition's return on equity.
87.5% of Metals Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Intuitive Machines shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Metals Acquisition shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 73.7% of Intuitive Machines shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Metals Acquisition had 3 more articles in the media than Intuitive Machines. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Metals Acquisition and 10 mentions for Intuitive Machines. Metals Acquisition's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Intuitive Machines' score of 0.26 indicating that Intuitive Machines is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Metals Acquisition has a beta of 0.02, indicating that its share price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intuitive Machines has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Intuitive Machines has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Metals Acquisition.
Summary
Intuitive Machines beats Metals Acquisition on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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