Head to Head Comparison: L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) and Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITTW)

Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITTW) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Nauticus Robotics and L3Harris Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nauticus Robotics	0	0	0	0	0.00
L3Harris Technologies	0	4	9	2	2.87

L3Harris Technologies has a consensus target price of $365.00, suggesting a potential upside of 39.21%. Given L3Harris Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe L3Harris Technologies is more favorable than Nauticus Robotics.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

84.8% of L3Harris Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of L3Harris Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Nauticus Robotics and L3Harris Technologies”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nauticus Robotics	$4.08 million	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
L3Harris Technologies	$21.86 billion	2.23	$1.61 billion	$9.90	26.49

L3Harris Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Nauticus Robotics.

Profitability

This table compares Nauticus Robotics and L3Harris Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nauticus Robotics	N/A	N/A	N/A
L3Harris Technologies	8.17%	10.96%	5.18%

Summary

L3Harris Technologies beats Nauticus Robotics on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nauticus Robotics

Nauticus Robotics, Inc. develops ocean robots, cloud software, and services to the ocean industry. The company offers Aquanaut, an autonomous underwater vehicle with sensor suite, which provides capability to observe and inspect subsea assets or other subsea features; Olympic Arm, an all-electric manipulator designed for a variety of intervention tasks on work class remotely operated vehicles; and ToolKITT, a software platform, which consists of interrelated products for ocean sensing, manipulation, autonomous behaviors, survey, search and recovery, and manual intervention. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Webster, Texas.

About L3Harris Technologies

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. provides mission-critical solutions for government and commercial customers worldwide. The company's Integrated Mission Systems segment provides intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems, passive sensing and targeting, electronic attack, autonomy, power and communications, and networks and sensors, as well as advanced combat systems for air, land, and sea sectors. Its Space and Airborne Systems segment offers space payloads, sensors, and full-mission solutions; classified intelligence and cyber; mission avionics; electronic warfare systems; and mission networks systems for air traffic management operations. The company's Communication Systems segment provides broadband communications; tactical radios, software, satellite terminals, and end-to-end battlefield systems for the U.S. Department of Defense, international, federal, and state agency customers; integrated vision solutions, including helmet-mounted integrated night vision goggles with leading-edge image intensifier tubes and weapon-mounted sights, aiming lasers, and range finders; and public safety radios, and system applications and equipment. Its Aerojet Rocketdyne segment provides propulsion technologies and armament systems for strategic defense, missile defense, hypersonic, and tactical systems; and space propulsion and power systems for national security, and space and exploration missions. The company was formerly known as Harris Corporation and changed its name to L3Harris Technologies, Inc. in June 2019. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1895 and is based in Melbourne, Florida.