Financial Analysis: Cadre (NYSE:CDRE) & Nukkleus (NASDAQ:DFNS)

Nukkleus (NASDAQ:DFNS) and Cadre (NYSE:CDRE) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Nukkleus and Cadre, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nukkleus	1	0	0	1	2.50
Cadre	0	2	6	1	2.89

Cadre has a consensus price target of $43.33, suggesting a potential upside of 60.67%. Given Cadre’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cadre is more favorable than Nukkleus.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

12.5% of Nukkleus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.0% of Cadre shares are held by institutional investors. 11.1% of Nukkleus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 30.1% of Cadre shares are held by 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.

Profitability

This table compares Nukkleus and Cadre’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nukkleus	N/A	N/A	-26.92%
Cadre	5.26%	12.02%	4.80%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Nukkleus and Cadre”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nukkleus	$5.91 million	1.34	$78.55 million	($397.10)	-0.01
Cadre	$610.31 million	1.89	$44.14 million	$0.85	31.73

Nukkleus has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cadre. Nukkleus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cadre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Nukkleus has a beta of -6.05, indicating that its stock price is 705% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cadre has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Cadre beats Nukkleus on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nukkleus

Nukkleus Inc., a financial technology company, provides blockchain-enabled technology solutions worldwide. It focuses on providing software and technology solutions for retail foreign exchange trading industry. The company provides transactions platform for dealing and risk management services. It also offers cross-border payment and transactions solutions and blockchain-enabled financial services solutions to institutional investors. In addition, the company provides software, technology, customer sales and marketing, and risk management technology hardware and software solutions. Nukkleus Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

About Cadre

Cadre Holdings, Inc. manufactures and distributes safety that provides protection to users in hazardous or life-threatening situations in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Products and Distribution. It offers body armor product, such as concealable, corrections, and tactical armor under the Safariland and Protech Tactical brand names; survival suits, remotely operated vehicles, specialty tools, blast sensors, accessories, and vehicle blast attenuation seats for bomb safety technicians; bomb suits; duty gear, including belts and accessories; and other protective equipment comprising communications gear, forensic and investigation products, firearms cleaning solutions, and crowd control products. The company also offers third-party products, such as uniforms, optics, boots, firearms, and ammunition. It serves first responders, such as state and local law enforcement, fire and rescue, explosive ordnance disposal technicians, emergency medical technicians, fishing, and wildlife enforcement and departments of corrections, as well as federal agencies including the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Corrections, the Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Waste Isolation Plant, and various foreign government agencies. Cadre Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.