Comparing Draganfly (NASDAQ:DPRO) & ASGN (NYSE:ASGN)

Draganfly (NASDAQ:DPRO) and ASGN (NYSE:ASGN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Draganfly and ASGN, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Draganfly	0	0	2	2	3.50
ASGN	3	3	2	0	1.88

Draganfly currently has a consensus target price of $16.75, indicating a potential upside of 195.94%. ASGN has a consensus target price of $54.71, indicating a potential upside of 51.82%. Given Draganfly’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Draganfly is more favorable than ASGN.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

10.4% of Draganfly shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of ASGN shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of ASGN shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Draganfly and ASGN”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Draganfly	$4.79 million	6.42	-$10.13 million	($1.85)	-3.06
ASGN	$3.98 billion	0.37	$113.50 million	$2.61	13.81

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

Risk & Volatility

Draganfly has a beta of 2.66, indicating that its share price is 166% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ASGN has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Draganfly and ASGN’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Draganfly	-243.20%	-71.81%	-58.36%
ASGN	2.85%	10.94%	5.37%

Summary

ASGN beats Draganfly on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Draganfly

Draganfly Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells cutting-edge unmanned and remote data collection and analysis platforms and systems in the United States and Canada. The company offers quadcopters, fixed-wing aircraft, ground-based robots, handheld controllers, and flight training, as well as software used for tracking, live streaming, and data collection. It also operates a health/telehealth platform that is a set of technologies that remotely detect various biometrics, such as heart rate, oxygen saturation, and blood pressure. In addition, the company provides sanitary spraying services to indoor and outdoor public gathering spaces, including sport stadiums and fields, and custom engineering, training, consulting, flight, and geographic information systems data services. It serves public safety, agriculture, industrial inspections, and mapping and surveying markets. Draganfly Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada.

About ASGN

ASGN Incorporated engages in the provision of information technology (IT) services and solutions in the technology, digital, and creative fields for commercial and government sectors in the United States, Canada, and Europe. It operates through two segments: Commercial and Federal Government. The Commercial Segment provides consulting, creative digital marketing, and permanent placement services primarily to enterprise clients. This segment also offers workforce mobilization, modern enterprise, and digital innovation IT consulting services; and cloud, data and analytics, and digital transformation solutions. The Federal Government Segment provides mission-critical solutions to the department of defense, intelligence communities, and federal civilian agencies. This segment offers cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, application and IT modernization, and science and engineering solutions. The company was formerly known as On Assignment, Inc. and changed its name to ASGN Incorporated in April 2018. ASGN Incorporated was founded in 1985 and is based in Glen Allen, Virginia.