Momentus (NASDAQ:MNTS) & General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) Financial Contrast

Momentus (NASDAQ:MNTS) and General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) are both aerospace companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Momentus and General Dynamics, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Momentus	0	0	0	0	0.00
General Dynamics	1	12	9	0	2.36

General Dynamics has a consensus target price of $315.7778, indicating a potential upside of 0.66%. Given General Dynamics’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe General Dynamics is more favorable than Momentus.

Profitability

This table compares Momentus and General Dynamics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Momentus	-1,705.93%	N/A	-258.36%
General Dynamics	8.13%	17.99%	7.21%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

9.2% of Momentus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of General Dynamics shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Momentus shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of General Dynamics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Momentus and General Dynamics”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Momentus	$2.11 million	4.25	-$34.95 million	N/A	N/A
General Dynamics	$47.72 billion	1.77	$3.78 billion	$14.90	21.05

General Dynamics has higher revenue and earnings than Momentus.

Volatility & Risk

Momentus has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, General Dynamics has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

General Dynamics beats Momentus on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Momentus

Momentus Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a commercial space company. The company focuses on providing in-space infrastructure services, including in-space transportation, hosted payloads, and in-orbit services. Its principal and target customers include satellite operators. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California.

About General Dynamics

General Dynamics Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. The Aerospace segment produces and sells business jets; and offers aircraft maintenance and repair, management, aircraft-on-ground support and completion, charter, staffing, and fixed-base operator services. The Marine Systems segment designs and builds nuclear-powered submarines, surface combatants, and auxiliary ships for the United States Navy and Jones Act ships for commercial customers, as well as builds crude oil and product tankers, and container and cargo ships; provides maintenance, modernization, and lifecycle support services for navy ships; offers and program management, planning, engineering, and design support services for submarine construction programs. The Combat Systems segment manufactures land combat solutions, such as wheeled and tracked combat vehicles, Stryker wheeled combat vehicles, piranha vehicles, weapons systems, munitions, mobile bridge systems with payloads, tactical vehicles, main battle tanks, armored vehicles, and armaments; and offers modernization programs, engineering, support, and sustainment services. The Technologies segment provides information technology solutions and mission support services; mobile communication, computers, and command-and-control mission systems; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions to military, intelligence, and federal civilian customers; cloud computing, artificial intelligence; machine learning; big data analytics; development, security, and operations; and unmanned undersea vehicle manufacturing and assembly services. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.