Head to Head Survey: Titan International (NYSE:TWI) and urban-gro (NASDAQ:UGRO)

Titan International (NYSE:TWI) and urban-gro (NASDAQ:UGRO) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.

Profitability

This table compares Titan International and urban-gro’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Titan International	-1.24%	-1.62%	-0.53%
urban-gro	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Titan International and urban-gro”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Titan International	$1.85 billion	0.30	-$5.56 million	($0.31)	-27.85
urban-gro	$71.54 million	0.10	-$25.44 million	($1.12)	-0.52

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

Risk & Volatility

Titan International has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, urban-gro has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

80.4% of Titan International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.6% of urban-gro shares are held by institutional investors. 25.0% of Titan International shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 26.9% of urban-gro shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Titan International and urban-gro, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Titan International	0	0	3	0	3.00
urban-gro	0	0	0	1	4.00

Titan International currently has a consensus target price of $11.33, suggesting a potential upside of 31.26%. Given Titan International’s higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Titan International is more favorable than urban-gro.

About Titan International

Titan International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells wheels, tires, and undercarriage systems and components for off-highway vehicles in the United States and internationally. The company operates in Agricultural, Earthmoving/Construction, and Consumer segments. It offers wheels, tires, and undercarriage systems and components for various agricultural equipment, including tractors, combines, skidders, plows, planters, and irrigation equipment. The company also offers wheels, tires, and undercarriage systems and components for off-the-road earthmoving, mining, military, construction, and forestry equipment, including skid steers, aerial lifts, cranes, graders and levelers, scrapers, self-propelled shovel loaders, articulated dump trucks, load transporters, haul trucks, backhoe loaders, crawler tractors, lattice cranes, shovels, and hydraulic excavators. In addition, it provides bias and light truck tires; and products for ATVs, rock climbers, and turf applications, as well as specialty products and train brakes. It sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers, as well as to the aftermarket through independent distributors, equipment dealers, and its distribution centers. Titan International, Inc. was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in West Chicago, Illinois.

About urban-gro

urban-gro, Inc. engages in the designing, engineering, building, and integrating complex environmental equipment systems for indoor controlled environment agriculture (CEA) cultivation and retail facilities in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The company provides architectural design, engineering, and construction services comprising pre-construction, cultivation space programming (CSP), architectural and interior design, engineering, integrated cultivation design, owner's representative/construction management, and general contracting services; and maintenance, training, and support services. It also offers facility and equipment commissioning services; gro-care crop and asset protection services, including training services, equipment maintenance services, asset protection program, and an interactive online operating support system for gro-care and client document delivery and project management; and property condition assessment services. In addition, the company provides integrated equipment systems solutions, such as design, source, and integration of complex environmental equipment systems comprising heating, ventilation, and air conditioning solutions, as well as environmental control, fertigation, irrigation distribution, water treatment, and wastewater reclamation systems; and commercial horticulture lighting solutions, rolling and automated container benching systems, specialty fans, microbial mitigation, and odor reduction systems. Further, it offers value-Added Reselling (VAR) of cultivation equipment systems; and strategic vendor relationships with premier manufacturers. It primarily markets and sells its solutions to clients in the CEA that includes operators and facilitators in the cannabis and produce markets; and commercial sectors comprising food and beverage consumer packaged goods companies, healthcare, higher education, and hospitality. urban-gro, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Lafayette, Colorado.