Critical Comparison: TriMas (NASDAQ:TRS) versus NEXE Innovations (OTCMKTS:NEXNF)

NEXE Innovations (OTCMKTS:NEXNF) and TriMas (NASDAQ:TRS) are both materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for NEXE Innovations and TriMas, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NEXE Innovations	0	0	0	0	0.00
TriMas	0	1	3	0	2.75

TriMas has a consensus price target of $41.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.29%. Given TriMas’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe TriMas is more favorable than NEXE Innovations.

Profitability

This table compares NEXE Innovations and TriMas’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NEXE Innovations	N/A	N/A	N/A
TriMas	104.22%	6.41%	3.71%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NEXE Innovations and TriMas”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NEXE Innovations	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
TriMas	$664.37 million	2.17	$120.14 million	$24.03	1.67

TriMas has higher revenue and earnings than NEXE Innovations.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

99.4% of TriMas shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.5% of TriMas shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

TriMas beats NEXE Innovations on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NEXE Innovations

NEXE Innovations Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of plant-based single-serve coffee pods for use in single-serve coffee machines in Canada. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Surrey, Canada.

About TriMas

TriMas Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of products for consumer products, aerospace, and industrial markets worldwide. The company operates through Packaging, Aerospace, and Specialty Products segments. The Packaging segment offers dispensing products, such as foaming and sanitizer pumps, lotion and hand soap pumps, beverage dispensers, perfume sprayers, and nasal and trigger sprayers; polymeric and steel caps and closures comprising food lids, flip-top and beverage closures, child resistance caps, drum and pail closures, and flexible spouts; polymeric jar products; integrated dispensers; bag-in-box products; and consumable vascular delivery and diagnostic test components under the Rieke, Taplast, Affaba & Ferrari, Intertech, Omega, and Rapak brands. The Aerospace segment provides fasteners, collars, blind bolts, rivets, ducting, and connectors for air management systems, and other highly-machined parts and components to original equipment manufacturers, supply chain distributors, and tier one suppliers, as well as maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO)/aftermarket providers; and military and defense aerospace applications and platforms under the Monogram Aerospace Fasteners, Allfast Fastening Systems, Mac Fasteners, TFI Aerospace, RSA Engineered Products, and Martinic Engineering brands. The Specialty Products segment offers steel cylinders for use in the transportation, storage, and dispensing of compressed gases under the Norris Cylinder brand; natural gas powered wellhead engines, compressors, and replacement parts for oil and natural gas production, and other industrial and commercial markets under the Arrow brand; and spare parts for various industrial engines. It sells its products through a direct sales force, third-party agents, and distributors. TriMas Corporation was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.