ATRenew (NYSE:RERE – Get Free Report) and AstroNova (NASDAQ:ALOT – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for ATRenew and AstroNova, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| ATRenew | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.50 |
| AstroNova | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
ATRenew currently has a consensus target price of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 33.75%. Given ATRenew’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe ATRenew is more favorable than AstroNova.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| ATRenew | 1.90% | 11.48% | 7.98% |
| AstroNova | -0.88% | 2.94% | 1.61% |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
19.3% of ATRenew shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.0% of AstroNova shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of ATRenew shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.6% of AstroNova shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Risk and Volatility
ATRenew has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AstroNova has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares ATRenew and AstroNova”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| ATRenew | $3.01 billion | 0.30 | $48.09 million | $0.25 | 16.45 |
| AstroNova | $150.51 million | 1.50 | -$2.38 million | ($0.18) | -159.94 |
ATRenew has higher revenue and earnings than AstroNova. AstroNova is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ATRenew, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ATRenew beats AstroNova on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About ATRenew
ATRenew Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates pre-owned consumer electronics transactions and services platform in the People's Republic of China. It primarily sells mobile phones, laptops, tablets, drones, digital cameras; and vintage bags, watches, liquor, gold, and various household goods through its online platforms and offline stores, as well as provides services to third-party merchants to sell the products through its platforms. The company was formerly known as AiHuiShou International Co. Ltd. and changed its name to ATRenew Inc. November 2021. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.
About AstroNova
AstroNova, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes specialty printers, and data acquisition and analysis systems in the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada, Central and South America, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Product Identification (PI) and Test & Measurement (T&M). The PI segment offers tabletop and production-ready digital color label printers, and OEM printing systems under the QuickLabel brand; digital color label mini-presses and inline printing systems under the TrojanLabel brand; and label materials, tags material, inks, toners, and thermal transfer ribbions under the GetLabels brand. This segment also develops and licenses various specialized software programs to design and manage labels and print images; and provides training and support. This segment serves chemicals, cosmetics, food and beverage, medical products, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and other industries; and brand owners, label converters, commercial printers, and packaging manufacturers. The T&M segment offers airborne printing solutions, such as ToughWriter used to print hard copies of navigation maps, arrival and departure information, flight itineraries, weather maps, performance data, passenger data, and various air traffic control data; ToughSwitch, an ethernet switches used to connect multiple computers or Ethernet devices; TMX data acquisition systems; Daxus DXS-100 distributed data acquisition platform; SmartCorder DDX100 portable data acquisition systems for facility and field testing; and Everest EV-5000, a digital strip chart recording system used primarily in aerospace and defense. This segment serves aerospace and aerospace and defense, automotive, commercial airline, energy, manufacturing, and transportation industries. The company was formerly known as Astro-Med, Inc. and changed its name to AstroNova, Inc. in May 2016. AstroNova, Inc. was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in West Warwick, Rhode Island.
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