AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ:ASTS – Get Free Report) and SES (OTCMKTS:SGBAF – Get Free Report) are both communication services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
61.0% of AST SpaceMobile shares are held by institutional investors. 20.9% of AST SpaceMobile shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for AST SpaceMobile and SES, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| AST SpaceMobile | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2.31 |
| SES | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.33 |
Profitability
This table compares AST SpaceMobile and SES’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| AST SpaceMobile | -536.66% | -22.88% | -10.67% |
| SES | -8.96% | -9.43% | -1.93% |
Volatility & Risk
AST SpaceMobile has a beta of 2.74, meaning that its stock price is 174% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SES has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares AST SpaceMobile and SES”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| AST SpaceMobile | $115.30 million | 208.63 | -$341.94 million | ($2.14) | -28.88 |
| SES | $2.97 billion | 0.99 | -$107.48 million | ($0.88) | -5.99 |
SES has higher revenue and earnings than AST SpaceMobile. AST SpaceMobile is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SES, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
About AST SpaceMobile
AST SpaceMobile, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops and provides access to a space-based cellular broadband network for smartphones in the United States. Its SpaceMobile service provides cellular broadband services to end-users who are out of terrestrial cellular coverage. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Midland, Texas.
About SES
SES S.A. provides satellite-based data transmission capacity and ancillary services worldwide. The company offers content connectivity solutions, including network spanning satellite and ground infrastructure to create, deliver, and manage video and data solutions. It also provides data connectivity services through its fleet of geostationary earth orbit and medium earth orbit satellites to the aviation, cloud, cruise, energy, government, maritime, and telco and mobile network operator industries. In addition, the company offers video services, which includes end-to-end managed services to audience; and provides multi-screen and multi-device viewing experiences on linear channels, video-on-demand, streaming platforms, and social media sites for broadcasters, platform operators, and sports organizations. Further, it provides linear video aggregation and distribution, such as direct-to-home, direct-to-cable, and internet protocol TV households; channel management solutions comprising playout; and live feeds and redundancy features. The company was formerly known as SES Global SA and changed its name to SES S.A. in December 2006. SES S.A. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Betzdorf, Luxembourg.
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