CompoSecure (NASDAQ:CMPO – Get Free Report) and Komatsu (OTCMKTS:KMTUY – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
37.6% of CompoSecure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Komatsu shares are held by institutional investors. 52.1% of CompoSecure shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Komatsu shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for CompoSecure and Komatsu, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| CompoSecure | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Komatsu | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
Risk & Volatility
CompoSecure has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Komatsu has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares CompoSecure and Komatsu’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| CompoSecure | -24.53% | -65.50% | 26.83% |
| Komatsu | 8.93% | 10.49% | 5.98% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares CompoSecure and Komatsu”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| CompoSecure | $160.68 million | 10.45 | -$53.72 million | ($2.16) | -6.15 |
| Komatsu | $27.45 billion | 1.57 | $2.48 billion | $2.73 | 16.96 |
Komatsu has higher revenue and earnings than CompoSecure. CompoSecure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Komatsu, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
About CompoSecure
CompoSecure, Inc. manufactures and designs metal, composite, and proprietary financial transaction cards in the United States and internationally. Its primary metal form factors include embedded, metal veneer lite, metal veneer, and full metal products. The company also offers Arculus Cold Storage Wallet, a three-factor authentication solution, which supports specific digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, non-fungible tokens and others. In addition, it offers Payments + Arculus Secure Authenticate, white-labeled cold storage wallet, Payments + Arculus Cold Storage, and Payments + Arculus Authentication + Arculus Cold Storage. The company serves financial institutions, plastic card manufacturers, system integrators, and security specialists. CompoSecure, Inc. was founded in 1910 and is based in Somerset, New Jersey.
About Komatsu
Komatsu Ltd. manufactures and sells construction, mining, and utility equipment in Japan, the Americas, Europe, China, Rest of Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Africa, and CIS countries. It operates through three segments: Construction, Mining and Utility Equipment; Retail Finance; and Industrial Machinery and Others. The company offers construction and mining equipment, including excavators, wheel loaders, bulldozers, motor graders, dump truck, rope and hybrid shovels, electric wheel loaders, continuous miners, and jumbo drills. It also provides forestry equipment, including harvesters, forwarders, feller bunchers, excavators, mini excavators, and forklifts; demolition, waste, and recycling equipment, such as mobile crushers, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, and mini shovels; material handling equipment; and tunnel-boring machines, pipe layers, towing tractors, and engines. In addition, the company offers industrial machinery, including presses, sheet-metal machinery, 3D laser cutting machine, transfer machines, battery manufacturing equipment, wire saws, thermos modules, thermoelectric generation module, and temperature control products; quarry equipment; agricultural and livestock equipment; EH sensor device; iron and steel casting products; and logistics equipment. Further, the company provides retail financing; construction machinery rental services; remanufactured products; other support services; transportation, warehousing, packing, and other services; and purchases and sells used equipment. Komatsu Ltd. was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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