CPTN vs. ISPO, PRST, ZFOX, GOEV, INVZ, CAAS, STRT, MPAA, SUP, and XOS
Should you be buying Cepton stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cepton include Inspirato (ISPO), Presto Automation (PRST), ZeroFox (ZFOX), Canoo (GOEV), Innoviz Technologies (INVZ), China Automotive Systems (CAAS), Strattec Security (STRT), Motorcar Parts of America (MPAA), Superior Industries International (SUP), and XOS (XOS).
Inspirato (NASDAQ:ISPO) and Cepton (NASDAQ:CPTN) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and community ranking.
Inspirato currently has a consensus price target of $10.50, suggesting a potential upside of 159.26%. Given Cepton's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Inspirato is more favorable than Cepton.
Cepton has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Inspirato. Cepton is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Inspirato, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Inspirato received 2 more outperform votes than Cepton when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 30.00% of users gave Cepton an outperform vote while only 21.74% of users gave Inspirato an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Cepton had 1 more articles in the media than Inspirato. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Cepton and 2 mentions for Inspirato. Cepton's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Inspirato's score of 0.39 indicating that Inspirato is being referred to more favorably in the media.
39.5% of Inspirato shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.2% of Cepton shares are held by institutional investors. 34.2% of Inspirato shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 36.1% of Cepton shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Inspirato has a net margin of -14.98% compared to Inspirato's net margin of -300.64%.
Inspirato has a beta of -0.1, suggesting that its stock price is 110% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cepton has a beta of 0.07, suggesting that its stock price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Inspirato beats Cepton on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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