Ballistic Recovery (OTCMKTS:BRSI) versus Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) Head-To-Head Comparison

Ballistic Recovery (OTCMKTS:BRSI) and Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) are both aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Ballistic Recovery and Mercury Systems, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ballistic Recovery	0	0	0	0	0.00
Mercury Systems	2	3	4	2	2.55

Mercury Systems has a consensus target price of $73.89, indicating a potential downside of 5.93%. Given Ballistic Recovery’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ballistic Recovery is more favorable than Mercury Systems.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

96.0% of Mercury Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 45.3% of Ballistic Recovery shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Mercury Systems shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Ballistic Recovery and Mercury Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ballistic Recovery	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mercury Systems	-4.16%	0.58%	0.35%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Ballistic Recovery and Mercury Systems”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ballistic Recovery	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mercury Systems	$912.02 million	5.17	-$37.90 million	($0.66)	-119.02

Ballistic Recovery has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Mercury Systems.

Summary

Mercury Systems beats Ballistic Recovery on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ballistic Recovery

Ballistic Recovery Systems Inc. develops and commercializes parachute systems in the United States. The company operates in three segments: Aviation, Defense, and Space. The Aviation segment designs, tests, and produces whole-aircraft emergency recovery parachute systems for the general aviation and recreational aircraft industries. The Defense segment designs, tests, and produces personnel parachute systems, precision guided aerial delivery systems, and cargo and whole-aircraft emergency recovery parachutes used in unmanned aerial vehicles and training aircrafts. The Space segment designs, tests, and produces entry, descent, and landing systems for various space applications, as well as manned and un-manned, planetary, and terrestrial space applications. The company also provides safety apparel. Ballistic Recovery Systems Inc. was founded in 1980 and is based in South Saint Paul, Minnesota.

About Mercury Systems

Mercury Systems, Inc., a technology company, manufactures and sells components, products, modules, and subsystems for aerospace and defense industries in the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Its products and solutions are deployed in approximately 300 programs with 25 defense contractors and commercial aviation customers. The company offers components, including power amplifiers and limiters, switches, oscillators, filters, equalizers, digital and analog converters, chips, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, and memory and storage devices; modules and sub-assemblies, such as embedded processing boards, switched fabrics and boards, digital receivers, multi-chip modules, integrated radio frequency and microwave multi-function assemblies, tuners, and transceivers, as well as graphics and video boards; and integrated subsystems. It also designs and develops digital radio frequency memory units for various modern electronic warfare applications; radar environment simulation and test systems for defense and intelligence applications; and signals intelligence payloads and EO/IR technologies for small UAV platforms, as well as onboard UAV processor systems for real-time wide area motion imagery. The company was formerly known as Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Mercury Systems, Inc. in November 2012. The company was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.