Financial Comparison: Eastern (NASDAQ:EML) & Cycurion (NASDAQ:CYCU)

Risk & Volatility

Cycurion has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastern has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Cycurion and Eastern”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cycurion	$17.77 million	0.63	$1.23 million	N/A	N/A
Eastern	$272.75 million	0.52	-$8.53 million	($1.32)	-17.51

Cycurion has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Eastern.

Profitability

This table compares Cycurion and Eastern’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cycurion	N/A	N/A	N/A
Eastern	-3.01%	10.22%	5.25%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

6.6% of Cycurion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.0% of Eastern shares are owned by institutional investors. 60.3% of Cycurion shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Eastern shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Eastern beats Cycurion on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Cycurion

Cycurion is a global leading provider of Network Communications and Information Technology Security Solutions. Our mission is to develop and deliver world-class, cutting-edge solutions for our clients, regardless of size or complication, expressly optimizing your IT environment to meet the business need and to keep projects on track and on budget.

About Eastern

The Eastern Company designs, manufactures, and sells engineered solutions to industrial markets in the United States and internationally. The company offers turnkey returnable packaging solutions, which are used in the assembly processes of vehicles, aircraft, and durable goods, as well as in production processes of plastic packaging products, packaged consumer goods, and pharmaceuticals; designs and manufactures blow mold tools and injection blow mold tooling products, and 2-step stretch blow molds and related components for the stretch blow molding industry; and supplies blow molds and change parts to the food, beverage, healthcare, and chemical industries. It also provides rotary latches, compression latches, draw latches, hinges, camlocks, key switches, padlocks, and handles; and development and program management services for custom electromechanical and mechanical systems for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and customer applications. In addition, the company designs and manufactures proprietary vision technology for OEMs and aftermarket applications, as well as offers aftermarket components to the heavy- and medium-duty truck, motorhome, and bus markets. The Eastern Company was founded in 1858 and is based in Shelton, Connecticut.