Financial Survey: Atmus Filtration Technologies (NYSE:ATMU) & Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT)

Atmus Filtration Technologies (NYSE:ATMU) and Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atmus Filtration Technologies	11.32%	59.85%	14.66%
Nauticus Robotics	-1,758.70%	-1,067.00%	-81.40%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

32.7% of Atmus Filtration Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.5% of Nauticus Robotics shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Atmus Filtration Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 26.3% of Nauticus Robotics shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Atmus Filtration Technologies and Nauticus Robotics”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Atmus Filtration Technologies	$1.76 billion	2.09	$207.40 million	$2.61	17.28
Nauticus Robotics	$4.08 million	0.42	-$40.83 million	($329.27)	-0.00

Atmus Filtration Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Nauticus Robotics. Nauticus Robotics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atmus Filtration Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Atmus Filtration Technologies and Nauticus Robotics, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Atmus Filtration Technologies	0	2	4	0	2.67
Nauticus Robotics	1	0	0	0	1.00

Atmus Filtration Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $57.67, suggesting a potential upside of 27.86%. Given Atmus Filtration Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Atmus Filtration Technologies is more favorable than Nauticus Robotics.

Risk & Volatility

Atmus Filtration Technologies has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nauticus Robotics has a beta of -0.08, indicating that its share price is 108% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Atmus Filtration Technologies beats Nauticus Robotics on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Atmus Filtration Technologies

Atmus Filtration Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells filtration products under the Fleetguard brand name in North America, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, Africa, and internationally. The company offers fuel filters, lube filters, air filters, crankcase ventilation, hydraulic filters, coolants, and fuel additives, as well as other chemicals; and fuel water separators and other filtration systems to original equipment manufacturers, dealers/distributors, and end-users. Its products are used in on-highway commercial vehicles and off-highway agriculture, construction, mining, and power generation vehicles and equipment. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

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.