Financial Survey: Satellogic (NASDAQ:SATLW) and Cadre (NYSE:CDRE)

Satellogic (NASDAQ:SATLW) and Cadre (NYSE:CDRE) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Satellogic and Cadre, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Satellogic	0	0	0	0	0.00
Cadre	1	2	4	1	2.62

Cadre has a consensus target price of $40.80, suggesting a potential upside of 23.70%. Given Cadre’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cadre is more favorable than Satellogic.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Satellogic and Cadre”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Satellogic	$31.91 million	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Cadre	$610.31 million	2.31	$44.14 million	$0.89	37.06

Cadre has higher revenue and earnings than Satellogic.

Profitability

This table compares Satellogic and Cadre’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Satellogic	N/A	N/A	N/A
Cadre	5.26%	12.02%	4.80%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

44.0% of Cadre shares are held by institutional investors. 30.1% of Cadre shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Cadre beats Satellogic on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Satellogic

Satellogic Inc. operates as an integrated geospatial company in the Asia Pacific, North America, and internationally. It engages in tasking satellites with monitoring assets and keeping up with their changing reality for government and commercial customers; control satellites on top of specific areas of interest for governments; and sale and support satellites. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay.

About Cadre

Cadre Holdings, Inc. manufactures and distributes safety that provides protection to users in hazardous or life-threatening situations in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Products and Distribution. It offers body armor product, such as concealable, corrections, and tactical armor under the Safariland and Protech Tactical brand names; survival suits, remotely operated vehicles, specialty tools, blast sensors, accessories, and vehicle blast attenuation seats for bomb safety technicians; bomb suits; duty gear, including belts and accessories; and other protective equipment comprising communications gear, forensic and investigation products, firearms cleaning solutions, and crowd control products. The company also offers third-party products, such as uniforms, optics, boots, firearms, and ammunition. It serves first responders, such as state and local law enforcement, fire and rescue, explosive ordnance disposal technicians, emergency medical technicians, fishing, and wildlife enforcement and departments of corrections, as well as federal agencies including the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Corrections, the Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Waste Isolation Plant, and various foreign government agencies. Cadre Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.