Microwave Filter (OTCMKTS:MFCO) versus Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT) Financial Survey

Microwave Filter (OTCMKTS:MFCO) and Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

61.6% of Allient shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Microwave Filter shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Allient shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Microwave Filter and Allient, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Microwave Filter	0	0	0	0	0.00
Allient	0	2	4	0	2.67

Allient has a consensus target price of $77.33, indicating a potential upside of 3.68%. Given Allient’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Allient is more favorable than Microwave Filter.

Volatility and Risk

Microwave Filter has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allient has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Microwave Filter and Allient”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Microwave Filter	$2.18 million	1.01	-$260,000.00	$0.06	14.33
Allient	$554.48 million	2.29	$22.03 million	$1.43	52.16

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

Profitability

This table compares Microwave Filter and Allient’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Microwave Filter	N/A	N/A	N/A
Allient	4.25%	12.47%	6.37%

Summary

Allient beats Microwave Filter on 14 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Microwave Filter

Microwave Filter Company, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electronic filters for radio and microwave frequencies primarily in the United States. It manufactures RF filters and related components for eliminating interference and facilitating signal processing for cable television, broadcast, commercial and military communications, avionics, radar, navigation, and defense markets. The company also designs waveguide, stripline/microstrip, transmission line, miniature/subminiature, and lumped constant filters. Its configurations include bandpass, highpass, lowpass, bandstop, multiplexers, tunable notch, tunable bandpass, high power filters, amplitude equalized, delay equalized, and filter networks. The company serves 5G, cable television, television and radio broadcast, satellite broadcast, mobile radio, commercial, and aerospace and defense electronics markets. Microwave Filter Company, Inc. was incorporated in 1967 and is based in East Syracuse, New York.

About Allient

Allient Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells precision and specialty controlled motion components and systems for various industries in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It offers brush and brushless DC motors, brushless servo and torque motors, coreless DC motors, integrated brushless motor-drives, gearmotors, gearing, modular digital servo drives, motion controllers, optical encoders, active and passive filters, input/output modules, industrial communications gateways, light-weighting technologies, and other controlled motion-related products, as well as nano precision positioning systems, servo control systems, and digital servo amplifiers and drives. The company sells its products to end customers and original equipment manufacturers in vehicle, medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets through direct sales force, authorized manufacturers’ representatives, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Allied Motion Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Allient Inc. in August 2023. Allient Inc. was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Amherst, New York.