Head to Head Review: Satellogic (SATL) vs. Its Peers

Satellogic (NASDAQ:SATL) is one of 230 public companies in the “Aerospace & Defense” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Satellogic to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Satellogic and its peers, 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	2071	8032	12364	539	2.49

Satellogic presently has a consensus target price of $8.90, indicating a potential upside of 88.16%. As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies have a potential upside of 30.94%. Given Satellogic’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Satellogic is more favorable than its peers.

Volatility & Risk

Satellogic has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Satellogic’s peers have a beta of 1.28, indicating that their average stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Satellogic and its peers’ 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	-305.55%	-31.46%	-4.73%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

17.6% of Satellogic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.5% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are held by institutional investors. 38.8% of Satellogic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.1% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Satellogic	$31.91 million	-$4.78 million	-5.77
Satellogic Competitors	$8.46 billion	$576.73 million	26.67

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

Summary

Satellogic beats its peers on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

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.