Analyzing Cycurion (CYCU) and Its Rivals

Cycurion (NASDAQ:CYCU) is one of 271 public companies in the “IT Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Cycurion to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, dividends and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cycurion	1	1	1	0	2.00
Cycurion Competitors	1991	5645	9449	342	2.47

Cycurion currently has a consensus target price of $56.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2,400.00%. As a group, “IT Services” companies have a potential upside of 31.29%. Given Cycurion’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cycurion is more favorable than its competitors.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cycurion	$14.40 million	-$23.67 million	-0.09
Cycurion Competitors	$3.32 billion	$227.67 million	-20.86

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

Volatility and Risk

Cycurion has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cycurion’s competitors have a beta of 2.16, meaning that their average stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

6.6% of Cycurion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.7% of shares of all “IT Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 4.6% of Cycurion shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of shares of all “IT Services” 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.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cycurion	-98.83%	-98.55%	-46.19%
Cycurion Competitors	-191.32%	-32.18%	-8.63%

Summary

Cycurion competitors beat Cycurion on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

Cycurion Company Profile

Cycurion is a global leading provider of Network Communications and Information Technology Security Solutions. Our mission is to develop and deliver world-class, cutting-edge solutions for our clients, regardless of size or complication, expressly optimizing your IT environment to meet the business need and to keep projects on track and on budget.