Park Aerospace (NYSE:PKE – Get Free Report) and Ondas (NASDAQ:ONDS – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Profitability
This table compares Park Aerospace and Ondas’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Park Aerospace | 16.70% | 10.75% | 9.77% |
| Ondas | 93.55% | -14.20% | -7.15% |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
77.8% of Park Aerospace shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.7% of Ondas shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.1% of Park Aerospace shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Ondas shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility and Risk
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Park Aerospace and Ondas, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Park Aerospace | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Ondas | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2.70 |
Park Aerospace currently has a consensus price target of $42.50, suggesting a potential upside of 42.28%. Ondas has a consensus price target of $17.18, suggesting a potential upside of 136.67%. Given Ondas’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ondas is more favorable than Park Aerospace.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Park Aerospace and Ondas”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Park Aerospace | $76.21 million | 8.52 | $11.27 million | $0.63 | 47.41 |
| Ondas | $174.10 million | 23.82 | -$132.02 million | ($0.07) | -103.67 |
Park Aerospace has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ondas. Ondas is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Park Aerospace, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Park Aerospace beats Ondas on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Park Aerospace
Park Aerospace Corp., an aerospace company, develops and manufactures solution and hot-melt advanced composite materials used to produce composite structures for the aerospace market in North America, Asia, and Europe. It offers advanced composite materials, including film adhesives and lightning strike protection materials that are used to produce primary and secondary structures for jet engines, large and regional transport aircrafts, military aircrafts, unmanned aerial vehicles, business jets, general aviation aircrafts, and rotary wing aircrafts. The company also provides specialty ablative materials for rocket motors and nozzles; and specially designed materials for radome applications. In addition, it designs and fabricates composite parts, structures and assemblies, and low volume tooling for the aerospace industry. The company was formerly known as Park Electrochemical Corp. and changed its name to Park Aerospace Corp. in July 2019. Park Aerospace Corp. was incorporated in 1954 and is based in Westbury, New York.
About Ondas
Ondas Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides private wireless, drone, and automated data solutions. It operates in two segments, Ondas Networks and Ondas Autonomous Systems. The company designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports FullMAX, a software defined radio (SDR) platform for wide-area broadband networks. Its FullMAX SDR platform enables secure and reliable industrial-grade connectivity for truly mission-critical applications. The company also offers Optimus, an AI-powered drone with imaging payloads; the Airbase, a ruggedized weatherproof base station for housing, data processing, and cloud transfer; Insightful, a secure web portal and API, which enables remote interaction with the system, data, and resulting analytics anywhere in the world; and the Raider, a counter-drone system for security and the protection of critical infrastructure, assets, and people from the threat of hostile drones. It serves users in rail, energy, mining, agriculture, public safety, critical infrastructure, and government markets in the United States and internationally. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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