ZenaTech (ZENA) versus Its Competitors Head-To-Head Contrast

ZenaTech (NASDAQ:ZENA) is one of 229 publicly-traded companies in the “Aerospace & Defense” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare ZenaTech to similar companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for ZenaTech and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ZenaTech	1	1	2	0	2.25
ZenaTech Competitors	2157	8274	12794	581	2.50

ZenaTech currently has a consensus price target of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 565.68%. As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies have a potential upside of 27.36%. Given ZenaTech’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe ZenaTech is more favorable than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
ZenaTech	$9.24 million	-$32.36 million	-0.46
ZenaTech Competitors	$8.44 billion	$569.54 million	25.85

ZenaTech’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than ZenaTech. ZenaTech 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.

Profitability

This table compares ZenaTech and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ZenaTech	-306.35%	-3,081.41%	-76.55%
ZenaTech Competitors	-348.96%	-46.51%	-4.31%

Volatility & Risk

ZenaTech has a beta of 7.52, indicating that its share price is 652% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ZenaTech’s peers have a beta of 1.31, indicating that their average share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

49.5% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

ZenaTech peers beat ZenaTech on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

About ZenaTech

ZenaTech, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZENA) is a technology company focused on artificial intelligence, drone-based solutions and enterprise software. Its business combines autonomous drone development with cloud-based applications intended to help organizations manage operations, data and workflows. The company’s ZenaDrone product line is designed for commercial and industrial applications, including inspection, monitoring, logistics, agriculture, public safety and defense. The systems are intended to use autonomous flight capabilities, artificial intelligence and other technologies to collect data and support tasks that may otherwise require manual aircraft operations.