Head-To-Head Comparison: Eviation Aircraft (OTCMKTS:EVTNF) & Telos (NASDAQ:TLS)

Eviation Aircraft (OTCMKTS:EVTNF) and Telos (NASDAQ:TLS) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Eviation Aircraft and Telos’ revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Eviation Aircraft	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Telos	$139.78 million	2.03	-$34.42 million	($0.44)	-9.00

Eviation Aircraft has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Telos.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for Eviation Aircraft and Telos, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Eviation Aircraft	0	0	0	0	N/A
Telos	0	3	3	0	2.50

Telos has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 26.26%. Given Telos’ higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Telos is more favorable than Eviation Aircraft.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

62.1% of Telos shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Eviation Aircraft shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.4% of Telos shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Eviation Aircraft has a beta of -0.31, suggesting that its stock price is 131% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telos has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Eviation Aircraft and Telos’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Eviation Aircraft	N/A	N/A	N/A
Telos	-22.22%	-22.69%	-17.72%

Summary

Telos beats Eviation Aircraft on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Eviation Aircraft

Eviation Aircraft Ltd. focuses on the light aviation regional transportation field. The Company offers passenger and cargo transportation services. Eviation Aircraft Ltd, formerly known as RVB Holdings Ltd, is based in Israel.

About Telos

Telos Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides cyber, cloud, and enterprise security solutions worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Security Solutions and Secure Networks. It provides Xacta, a platform for enterprise cyber risk management and security compliance automation; and consulting, assessment and compliance, engineering and evaluation, operations, and penetration testing services. The company also offers Telos Automated Message Handling System, a web-based organizational message distribution and management for mission-critical communications used by military field operatives; and Telos Advanced Cyber Analytics solution, which is a threat feed source of global Internet Protocol addresses known to engage in potentially malicious activity, including mass scanning and generic opportunistic attacks; and Telos Ghost, a solution to eliminate cyberattack surfaces by obfuscating and encrypting data, masking user identity and location, and hiding network resources, as well as provides security and privacy for intelligence gathering, cyber threat protection, securing critical infrastructure, and protecting communications and applications. In addition, the company provides IDTrust360, an enterprise digital trusted identity risk platform for extending flexible hybrid cloud identity services; and ONYX, a touchless fingerprint biometric solution for mobile devices. Further, it offers secure mobility solutions that enable remote work and minimize operational and security concerns across and beyond the enterprise; and network management and defense services for operating, administrating, and defending complex enterprise networks and services for defensive cyber operations. It serves the United States federal government, large commercial businesses, state and local governments, and international customers. Telos Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia.