Atmus Filtration Technologies (NYSE:ATMU) & Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT) Financial Analysis

Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT) and Atmus Filtration Technologies (NYSE:ATMU) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

20.5% of Nauticus Robotics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.7% of Atmus Filtration Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.3% of Nauticus Robotics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Atmus Filtration Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Nauticus Robotics and Atmus Filtration Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nauticus Robotics	1	0	0	0	1.00
Atmus Filtration Technologies	0	2	4	0	2.67

Atmus Filtration Technologies has a consensus target price of $57.67, indicating a potential upside of 21.40%. Given Atmus Filtration Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Atmus Filtration Technologies is more favorable than Nauticus Robotics.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Nauticus Robotics and Atmus Filtration Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nauticus Robotics	$5.28 million	0.32	-$40.83 million	($329.27)	-0.00
Atmus Filtration Technologies	$1.76 billion	2.20	$207.40 million	$2.61	18.20

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

Profitability

This table compares Nauticus Robotics and Atmus Filtration Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nauticus Robotics	-1,758.70%	-1,067.00%	-81.40%
Atmus Filtration Technologies	11.32%	59.85%	14.66%

Risk & Volatility

Nauticus Robotics has a beta of -0.14, suggesting that its stock price is 114% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atmus Filtration Technologies has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Atmus Filtration Technologies beats Nauticus Robotics on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nauticus Robotics

Nauticus Robotics, Inc. develops ocean robots, cloud software, and services to the ocean industry. The company offers Aquanaut, an autonomous underwater vehicle with sensor suite, which provides capability to observe and inspect subsea assets or other subsea features; Olympic Arm, an all-electric manipulator designed for a variety of intervention tasks on work class remotely operated vehicles; and ToolKITT, a software platform, which consists of interrelated products for ocean sensing, manipulation, autonomous behaviors, survey, search and recovery, and manual intervention. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Webster, Texas.

About Atmus Filtration Technologies

Atmus Filtration Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells filtration products under the Fleetguard brand name in North America, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, Africa, and internationally. The company offers fuel filters, lube filters, air filters, crankcase ventilation, hydraulic filters, coolants, and fuel additives, as well as other chemicals; and fuel water separators and other filtration systems to original equipment manufacturers, dealers/distributors, and end-users. Its products are used in on-highway commercial vehicles and off-highway agriculture, construction, mining, and power generation vehicles and equipment. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.