Financial Review: Draganfly (NASDAQ:DPRO) vs. ASGN (NYSE:ASGN)

Draganfly (NASDAQ:DPRO) and ASGN (NYSE:ASGN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Draganfly and ASGN, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Draganfly	0	0	2	2	3.50
ASGN	3	3	2	0	1.88

Draganfly currently has a consensus price target of $16.75, indicating a potential upside of 152.26%. ASGN has a consensus price target of $54.71, indicating a potential upside of 53.30%. Given Draganfly’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Draganfly is more favorable than ASGN.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Draganfly and ASGN”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Draganfly	$4.79 million	7.53	-$10.13 million	($1.85)	-3.59
ASGN	$3.98 billion	0.37	$113.50 million	$2.61	13.67

ASGN has higher revenue and earnings than Draganfly. Draganfly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ASGN, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

10.4% of Draganfly shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of ASGN shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of ASGN shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Draganfly and ASGN’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Draganfly	-243.20%	-71.81%	-58.36%
ASGN	2.85%	10.94%	5.37%

Volatility and Risk

Draganfly has a beta of 2.66, suggesting that its share price is 166% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ASGN has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

ASGN beats Draganfly on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Draganfly

Draganfly Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells cutting-edge unmanned and remote data collection and analysis platforms and systems in the United States and Canada. The company offers quadcopters, fixed-wing aircraft, ground-based robots, handheld controllers, and flight training, as well as software used for tracking, live streaming, and data collection. It also operates a health/telehealth platform that is a set of technologies that remotely detect various biometrics, such as heart rate, oxygen saturation, and blood pressure. In addition, the company provides sanitary spraying services to indoor and outdoor public gathering spaces, including sport stadiums and fields, and custom engineering, training, consulting, flight, and geographic information systems data services. It serves public safety, agriculture, industrial inspections, and mapping and surveying markets. Draganfly Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada.

About ASGN

ASGN Incorporated engages in the provision of information technology (IT) services and solutions in the technology, digital, and creative fields for commercial and government sectors in the United States, Canada, and Europe. It operates through two segments: Commercial and Federal Government. The Commercial Segment provides consulting, creative digital marketing, and permanent placement services primarily to enterprise clients. This segment also offers workforce mobilization, modern enterprise, and digital innovation IT consulting services; and cloud, data and analytics, and digital transformation solutions. The Federal Government Segment provides mission-critical solutions to the department of defense, intelligence communities, and federal civilian agencies. This segment offers cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, application and IT modernization, and science and engineering solutions. The company was formerly known as On Assignment, Inc. and changed its name to ASGN Incorporated in April 2018. ASGN Incorporated was founded in 1985 and is based in Glen Allen, Virginia.