Financial Survey: Aether (ATHR) versus Its Peers

Aether (NASDAQ:ATHR) is one of 43 publicly-traded companies in the “Services – Computer Programming And Data Processing” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Aether to related businesses based on the strength of its earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

58.9% of shares of all “Services – Computer Programming And Data Processing” companies are held by institutional investors. 21.2% of shares of all “Services – Computer Programming And Data Processing” companies 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.

Profitability

This table compares Aether and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aether	N/A	N/A	N/A
Aether Competitors	-53.73%	-1,002.64%	-68.20%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Aether and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aether	1	0	0	0	1.00
Aether Competitors	84	183	204	9	2.29

As a group, “Services – Computer Programming And Data Processing” companies have a potential upside of 74.86%. Given Aether’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Aether has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Aether and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aether	$1.38 million	-$3.14 million	-24.80
Aether Competitors	$273.78 million	-$40.93 million	-5.97

Aether’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Aether. Aether is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Aether peers beat Aether on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

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