GATX (NYSE:GATX – Get Free Report) and urban-gro (NASDAQ:UGRO – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and valuation.
Volatility & Risk
GATX has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, urban-gro has a beta of -2.91, indicating that its stock price is 391% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations for GATX and urban-gro, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| GATX | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.00 |
| urban-gro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares GATX and urban-gro”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| GATX | $2.05 billion | 3.06 | $333.30 million | $10.10 | 17.64 |
| urban-gro | $17.40 million | 0.01 | -$22.10 million | ($27.87) | -0.00 |
GATX has higher revenue and earnings than urban-gro. urban-gro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GATX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
93.1% of GATX shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.6% of urban-gro shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of GATX shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of urban-gro shares are owned by 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.
Profitability
This table compares GATX and urban-gro’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| GATX | 17.94% | 10.43% | 2.12% |
| urban-gro | -82.11% | -118.44% | -33.76% |
Summary
GATX beats urban-gro on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About GATX
GATX Corporation, together its subsidiaries, operates as railcar leasing company in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and India. It operates through three segments: Rail North America, Rail International, and Portfolio Management. The company leases tank and freight railcars, and locomotives for petroleum, chemical, food/agriculture, and transportation industries. It also offers maintenance services, including the interior cleaning of railcars, routine maintenance and repair of car body and safety appliances, regulatory compliance works, wheelset replacements, interior blast and lining, exterior blast and painting, and car stenciling services. In addition, the company manufactures commercial aircraft jet engines and leases aircraft spare engines; and owns and manages tank containers that are leased to chemical, industrial gas, energy, food, cryogenic and pharmaceutical industries, and tank container operators, as well as provides tank container sourcing, remarketing, and inspection and maintenance services. As of December 31, 2023, it owned and operated a fleet of approximately 148,500 railcars; 493 four-axle and 30 six-axle locomotives; 399 aircraft spare engines; and 23,931 tank containers. GATX Corporation was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in 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.
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