Financial Survey: CompoSecure (NASDAQ:CMPO) & Loomis (OTCMKTS:LOIMF)

CompoSecure (NASDAQ:CMPO) and Loomis (OTCMKTS:LOIMF) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for CompoSecure and Loomis, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CompoSecure	0	1	7	0	2.88
Loomis	0	0	0	0	0.00

CompoSecure presently has a consensus target price of $16.19, suggesting a potential upside of 9.75%. Given CompoSecure’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe CompoSecure is more favorable than Loomis.

Profitability

This table compares CompoSecure and Loomis’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CompoSecure	-15.36%	-33.46%	29.35%
Loomis	5.40%	12.72%	4.30%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares CompoSecure and Loomis”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CompoSecure	$420.57 million	3.59	-$53.72 million	($1.10)	-13.41
Loomis	$2.88 billion	N/A	$155.24 million	$2.26	17.48

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

37.6% of CompoSecure shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.1% of CompoSecure shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

CompoSecure has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Loomis has a beta of -1.54, meaning that its stock price is 254% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

CompoSecure beats Loomis on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CompoSecure

CompoSecure, Inc. manufactures and designs metal, composite, and proprietary financial transaction cards in the United States and internationally. Its primary metal form factors include embedded, metal veneer lite, metal veneer, and full metal products. The company also offers Arculus Cold Storage Wallet, a three-factor authentication solution, which supports specific digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, non-fungible tokens and others. In addition, it offers Payments + Arculus Secure Authenticate, white-labeled cold storage wallet, Payments + Arculus Cold Storage, and Payments + Arculus Authentication + Arculus Cold Storage. The company serves financial institutions, plastic card manufacturers, system integrators, and security specialists. CompoSecure, Inc. was founded in 1910 and is based in Somerset, New Jersey.

About Loomis

Loomis AB (publ) provides solutions for the distribution, payments, handling, storage, and recycling of cash and other valuables. The company offers a range of solutions for cash in transit, cash management services, foreign exchange services, automated teller machines, automated solutions, and international valuables logistics, as well as operates Loomis Pay, a payment service that enables processing of various types of payment methods, such as card, cash, and digital alternatives. It serves financial institutions, banks, retailers, commercial enterprises, and other customers, as well as public sector in Sweden, the United States, France, Switzerland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and internationally. Loomis AB (publ) was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.