BETA Technologies (NYSE:BETA) and Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) Head-To-Head Analysis

Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) and BETA Technologies (NYSE:BETA) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

96.0% of Mercury Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Mercury Systems shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 24.5% of BETA Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Mercury Systems and BETA Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mercury Systems	$983.62 million	4.81	-$29.67 million	($0.50)	-155.34
BETA Technologies	$35.62 million	125.83	-$745.87 million	($13.02)	-1.53

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

Profitability

This table compares Mercury Systems and BETA Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mercury Systems	-3.02%	1.29%	0.78%
BETA Technologies	-1,913.91%	-96.24%	-48.20%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Mercury Systems and BETA Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mercury Systems	2	4	5	2	2.54
BETA Technologies	1	1	10	0	2.75

Mercury Systems presently has a consensus price target of $112.80, indicating a potential upside of 45.23%. BETA Technologies has a consensus price target of $31.50, indicating a potential upside of 58.43%. Given BETA Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BETA Technologies is more favorable than Mercury Systems.

Summary

Mercury Systems beats BETA Technologies on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About BETA Technologies

BETA Technologies Inc. is an electric aerospace company. It involved in designing, manufacturing and selling high-performance electric aircraft, advanced electric propulsion systems, components and charging systems. BETA Technologies Inc. is based in SOUTH BURLINGTON.