GreenPower Motor (NASDAQ:GP – Get Free Report) and Art’s-Way Manufacturing (NASDAQ:ARTW – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares GreenPower Motor and Art’s-Way Manufacturing”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| GreenPower Motor | $16.39 million | 0.01 | -$5.48 million | ($3.40) | -0.17 |
| Art’s-Way Manufacturing | $22.98 million | 0.65 | $1.03 million | ($0.09) | -31.77 |
Art’s-Way Manufacturing has higher revenue and earnings than GreenPower Motor. Art’s-Way Manufacturing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GreenPower Motor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for GreenPower Motor and Art’s-Way Manufacturing, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| GreenPower Motor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| Art’s-Way Manufacturing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
1.7% of GreenPower Motor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.9% of Art’s-Way Manufacturing shares are held by institutional investors. 28.1% of GreenPower Motor shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.5% of Art’s-Way Manufacturing 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.
Profitability
This table compares GreenPower Motor and Art’s-Way Manufacturing’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| GreenPower Motor | -24.28% | N/A | -7.44% |
| Art’s-Way Manufacturing | -1.65% | -3.06% | -1.72% |
Risk & Volatility
GreenPower Motor has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its stock price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Art’s-Way Manufacturing has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Art’s-Way Manufacturing beats GreenPower Motor on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About GreenPower Motor
GreenPower Motor Company Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes electric vehicles for commercial markets in the United States and Canada. The company offers commercial vehicles for delivery, public transit, schools, vanpools, micro-transit, shuttles, and other; and passenger, student, low floor transit, and cargo transportation. It leases its vehicles to customers. GreenPower Motor Company Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
About Art’s-Way Manufacturing
Art’s-Way Manufacturing Co., Inc. manufactures and distributes farm equipment products. It operates through the Agricultural Products, and Modular Buildings segments. The Agricultural Products segment manufactures a variety of specialized farm machinery under its own label including portable and stationary animal feed processing equipment and related attachments used to mill and mix feed grains into custom animal feed rations, a line of forage equipment consisting of forage boxes, bale processors, running gear, and dump boxes, a line of manure spreaders, sugar beet harvesting equipment, and a line of dirt work equipment. The Modular Buildings segment produces and sells modular buildings, which are custom designed to meet the specific research needs of its customers. It also provides services relating to the design, manufacturing, delivery, installation and renting of the building units that it produces. The company was founded by Arthur Luscombe in 1956 and is headquartered in Armstrong, IA.
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