Critical Review: Satellogic (SATL) vs. Its Peers

Satellogic (NASDAQ:SATL) is one of 229 public companies in the “Aerospace & Defense” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Satellogic to similar businesses based on the strength of its risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Satellogic and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Satellogic	1	1	5	1	2.75
Satellogic Competitors	2038	8010	12342	537	2.50

Satellogic presently has a consensus price target of $8.90, suggesting a potential upside of 55.59%. As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies have a potential upside of 36.66%. Given Satellogic’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Satellogic is more favorable than its competitors.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

17.6% of Satellogic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.1% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are held by institutional investors. 38.8% of Satellogic shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.1% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are held by company 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.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Satellogic and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Satellogic	$31.91 million	-$4.78 million	-6.98
Satellogic Competitors	$8.48 billion	$577.31 million	29.21

Satellogic’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Satellogic. Satellogic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Satellogic and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Satellogic	-325.65%	303.84%	6.01%
Satellogic Competitors	-303.28%	-30.44%	-4.16%

Volatility and Risk

Satellogic has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Satellogic’s competitors have a beta of 1.36, meaning that their average stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Satellogic beats its competitors on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

Satellogic Company Profile

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.