Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT – Get Free Report) and Microwave Filter (OTCMKTS:MFCO – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
61.6% of Allient shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Allient shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Microwave Filter shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Allient and Microwave Filter’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Allient | 4.25% | 12.47% | 6.37% |
| Microwave Filter | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Volatility and Risk
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Allient and Microwave Filter, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Allient | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2.50 |
| Microwave Filter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Allient currently has a consensus price target of $72.25, suggesting a potential upside of 13.63%. Given Allient’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Allient is more favorable than Microwave Filter.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Allient and Microwave Filter”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Allient | $560.59 million | 1.93 | $22.03 million | $1.43 | 44.47 |
| Microwave Filter | $2.18 million | 1.01 | -$260,000.00 | $0.06 | 14.33 |
Allient has higher revenue and earnings than Microwave Filter. Microwave Filter is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Allient beats Microwave Filter on 14 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Allient
Allient Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells precision and specialty controlled motion components and systems for various industries in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It offers brush and brushless DC motors, brushless servo and torque motors, coreless DC motors, integrated brushless motor-drives, gearmotors, gearing, modular digital servo drives, motion controllers, optical encoders, active and passive filters, input/output modules, industrial communications gateways, light-weighting technologies, and other controlled motion-related products, as well as nano precision positioning systems, servo control systems, and digital servo amplifiers and drives. The company sells its products to end customers and original equipment manufacturers in vehicle, medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets through direct sales force, authorized manufacturers’ representatives, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Allied Motion Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Allient Inc. in August 2023. Allient Inc. was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Amherst, New York.
About Microwave Filter
Microwave Filter Company, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electronic filters for radio and microwave frequencies primarily in the United States. It manufactures RF filters and related components for eliminating interference and facilitating signal processing for cable television, broadcast, commercial and military communications, avionics, radar, navigation, and defense markets. The company also designs waveguide, stripline/microstrip, transmission line, miniature/subminiature, and lumped constant filters. Its configurations include bandpass, highpass, lowpass, bandstop, multiplexers, tunable notch, tunable bandpass, high power filters, amplitude equalized, delay equalized, and filter networks. The company serves 5G, cable television, television and radio broadcast, satellite broadcast, mobile radio, commercial, and aerospace and defense electronics markets. Microwave Filter Company, Inc. was incorporated in 1967 and is based in East Syracuse, New York.
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