Contrasting Nauticus Robotics (KITT) and Its Competitors

Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT) is one of 94 public companies in the “Aerospace & Defense” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Nauticus Robotics to related businesses based on the strength of its profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations for Nauticus Robotics and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nauticus Robotics	0	1	1	0	2.50
Nauticus Robotics Competitors	458	2170	2949	34	2.46

Nauticus Robotics currently has a consensus target price of $3.63, suggesting a potential upside of 123.77%. As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies have a potential upside of 12.64%. Given Nauticus Robotics’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Nauticus Robotics is more favorable than its peers.

Risk & Volatility

Nauticus Robotics has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nauticus Robotics’ peers have a beta of 1.18, meaning that their average stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Nauticus Robotics and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nauticus Robotics	$11.44 million	-$28.26 million	-3.95
Nauticus Robotics Competitors	$4.80 billion	$48.03 million	1,024.35

Nauticus Robotics’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Nauticus Robotics. Nauticus Robotics 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 Nauticus Robotics and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nauticus Robotics	-175.68%	-2,774.34%	-61.02%
Nauticus Robotics Competitors	-424.46%	-110.68%	-3.52%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

2.4% of Nauticus Robotics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.9% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are owned by institutional investors. 47.9% of Nauticus Robotics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.0% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Nauticus Robotics peers beat Nauticus Robotics on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Nauticus Robotics Company Profile

Nauticus Robotics, Inc. develops and provides ocean robots, software, and services to the ocean industry. The company offers Aquanaut, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with sensor suite, which provides capability to observe and inspect subsea assets or other subsea features; and Argonaut, a derivative product of the Aquanaut that is used for non-industrial and government applications. It also provides Olympic Arm, a subsea tool; ToolKITT, a cloud software platform, which consists of interrelated products for ocean sensing, manipulation, autonomous behaviors, survey, search and recovery, and manual intervention; and Hydronaut, an optionally crewed vessel that will support the real-time operations of Aquanaut in commercial applications. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Webster, Texas.