urban-gro (NASDAQ:UGRO – Get Free Report) and ZKH Group (NYSE:ZKH – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for urban-gro and ZKH Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| urban-gro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| ZKH Group | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares urban-gro and ZKH Group”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| urban-gro | $17.40 million | 0.00 | -$22.10 million | ($27.87) | -0.00 |
| ZKH Group | $1.29 billion | 0.30 | -$19.44 million | ($0.01) | -294.40 |
ZKH Group has higher revenue and earnings than urban-gro. ZKH Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than urban-gro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares urban-gro and ZKH Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| urban-gro | -82.11% | -118.44% | -33.76% |
| ZKH Group | -0.02% | -0.06% | -0.03% |
Volatility & Risk
urban-gro has a beta of -2.91, meaning that its share price is 391% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ZKH Group has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
20.6% of urban-gro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.5% of ZKH Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of urban-gro shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
ZKH Group beats urban-gro on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About urban-gro
urban-gro, Inc. engages in the designing, engineering, building, and integrating complex environmental equipment systems for indoor controlled environment agriculture (CEA) cultivation and retail facilities in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The company provides architectural design, engineering, and construction services comprising pre-construction, cultivation space programming (CSP), architectural and interior design, engineering, integrated cultivation design, owner's representative/construction management, and general contracting services; and maintenance, training, and support services. It also offers facility and equipment commissioning services; gro-care crop and asset protection services, including training services, equipment maintenance services, asset protection program, and an interactive online operating support system for gro-care and client document delivery and project management; and property condition assessment services. In addition, the company provides integrated equipment systems solutions, such as design, source, and integration of complex environmental equipment systems comprising heating, ventilation, and air conditioning solutions, as well as environmental control, fertigation, irrigation distribution, water treatment, and wastewater reclamation systems; and commercial horticulture lighting solutions, rolling and automated container benching systems, specialty fans, microbial mitigation, and odor reduction systems. Further, it offers value-Added Reselling (VAR) of cultivation equipment systems; and strategic vendor relationships with premier manufacturers. It primarily markets and sells its solutions to clients in the CEA that includes operators and facilitators in the cannabis and produce markets; and commercial sectors comprising food and beverage consumer packaged goods companies, healthcare, higher education, and hospitality. urban-gro, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Lafayette, Colorado.
About ZKH Group
ZKH Group Limited develops and operates a maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO) products trading and service platform that offers spare parts, chemicals, manufacturing parts, general consumables, and office supplies in the People’s Republic of China. The company provides MRO procurement and management services; digitalized MRO procurement solutions; and logistics and warehousing services. It also engages in the production and sale of intelligent warehousing equipment. ZKH Group Limited was founded in 1998 and is based in Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China.
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