Head to Head Contrast: urban-gro (UGRO) versus The Competition

urban-gro (NASDAQ:UGRO) is one of 158 publicly-traded companies in the “Trading Companies & Distributors” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare urban-gro to similar companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

20.6% of urban-gro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.9% of shares of all “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of urban-gro shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of shares of all “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

urban-gro has a beta of -2.91, suggesting that its share price is 391% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, urban-gro’s competitors have a beta of 1.29, suggesting that their average share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for urban-gro and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
urban-gro	1	0	0	0	1.00
urban-gro Competitors	1425	4870	6665	220	2.43

As a group, “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies have a potential upside of 14.94%. Given urban-gro’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe urban-gro has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares urban-gro and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
urban-gro	-82.11%	-118.44%	-33.76%
urban-gro Competitors	0.71%	-34.49%	3.14%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares urban-gro and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
urban-gro	$17.40 million	-$22.10 million	-0.00
urban-gro Competitors	$6.63 billion	$365.60 million	20.65

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

Summary

urban-gro competitors beat urban-gro on 13 of the 13 factors compared.

urban-gro Company Profile

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.