Halma (OTCMKTS:HLMAF) versus SoundThinking (NASDAQ:SSTI) Head to Head Survey

Halma (OTCMKTS:HLMAF) and SoundThinking (NASDAQ:SSTI) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Halma and SoundThinking, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Halma	1	3	2	2	2.63
SoundThinking	1	3	3	0	2.29

SoundThinking has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 100.00%. Given SoundThinking’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SoundThinking is more favorable than Halma.

Profitability

This table compares Halma and SoundThinking’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Halma	N/A	N/A	N/A
SoundThinking	-10.44%	-14.57%	-7.91%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

60.7% of SoundThinking shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of SoundThinking shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Halma and SoundThinking”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Halma	$2.87 billion	6.33	$378.18 million	N/A	N/A
SoundThinking	$102.03 million	0.87	-$9.18 million	($0.84)	-8.33

Halma has higher revenue and earnings than SoundThinking.

Volatility & Risk

Halma has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SoundThinking has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Halma beats SoundThinking on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Halma

Halma plc, together its subsidiaries, provides technology solutions in the safety, health, and environmental markets in the United States, Mainland Europe, the United Kingdom, the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Safety, Environmental & Analysis, and Medical. The Safety segment provides fire safety, fire detection and fire suppression; safe movement in public, commercial, and industrial spaces; elevator safety; communications in emergencies; control of access in potentially hazardous industrial and commercial environments; electrical safety; and the safe management of pipelines and storage assets solutions. This segment serves shops and restaurants, healthcare facilities, and offices and stadiums; industrial and logistics assets; public spaces and critical infrastructure; and aerospace, and rail and automotive markets. The Environmental & Analysis segment offers optical, optoelectronic, and spectral imaging systems; environmental monitoring, water and waste water analysis and treatment, gas analysis and detection, and optical analysis systems. It serves the optical analysis, water analysis and treatment, gas detection, and environmental monitoring markets. The Medical segment provides critical fluidic components used by medical diagnostics and original equipment manufacturers; components, devices and systems that provide information and analytics to understand patient health and enable providers to make decisions across the continuum of care; technologies and solutions to enable in-vitro diagnostic systems and life-science discoveries and development; and technologies that enable treatment across clinical specialties. This segment serves the life sciences, health assessment and analytics, and therapeutic solutions market. The company was incorporated in 1894 and is headquartered in Amersham, the United Kingdom.

About SoundThinking

SoundThinking, Inc., a public safety technology company that provides transformative solutions and strategic advisory services for law enforcement and civic leadership. Its SafetySmart Platform, an integrated suite of data-driven tools that enable law enforcement and community violence prevention and health organizations to be efficient in public safety outcomes. It offers ShotSpotter, an acoustic gunshot detection system; CrimeTracer, a law enforcement search engine; CaseBuilder, an investigation management system; and ResourceRouter, a software that directs patrol and community anti-violence resources to help maximize their impact. The company sells its solutions through its direct sales teams. The company was formerly known as ShotSpotter, Inc. and changed its name to SoundThinking, Inc. in April 2023. SoundThinking, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.