Contrasting Kraken Robotics (KRKNF) and Its Rivals

Kraken Robotics (OTCMKTS:KRKNF) is one of 378 publicly-traded companies in the “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Kraken Robotics to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Kraken Robotics and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Kraken Robotics	1	2	1	1	2.40
Kraken Robotics Competitors	1976	7484	10205	620	2.47

As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 16.98%. Given Kraken Robotics’ peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kraken Robotics has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Kraken Robotics and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Kraken Robotics	-0.68%	-0.35%	-0.19%
Kraken Robotics Competitors	-184.51%	-150.56%	-6.97%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

43.5% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are held by institutional investors. 16.5% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Kraken Robotics and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Kraken Robotics	$73.15 million	$2.05 million	-389.00
Kraken Robotics Competitors	$4.06 billion	$191.30 million	-4.89

Kraken Robotics’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Kraken Robotics. Kraken Robotics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Kraken Robotics peers beat Kraken Robotics on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

About Kraken Robotics

Kraken Robotics Inc., a marine technology company, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of sonar and optical sensors, batteries, and underwater robotic equipment for unmanned underwater vehicles used in military and commercial applications in Canada, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Products, and Services. The company offers AquaPix miniature interferometric synthetic aperture sonar (MINSAS), a configurable MINSAS; and SeaPower, a pressure tolerant deep sea batteries. It also provides Kraken Active Towed Fish (KATFISH), a towed underwater vehicle for high speed and high resolution seabed mapping; LARS, an autonomous launch and recovery system that enable an unmanned vehicle and its payloads to be brought aboard to a host ship; Acoustic Core that provides a 3D image of stratigraphy layers and anomalies across the entire foundation footprint; and Sub-Bottom Imager used to view image beneath the seabed. In addition, the company designs and manufactures pressure tolerant batteries, battery management systems, and electronics; and robotics as a service. The company was formerly known as Kraken Sonar Inc. and changed its name to Kraken Robotics Inc. in September 2017. Kraken Robotics Inc. is headquartered in Mount Pearl, Canada.