Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE – Get Free Report) and XTEND AI Robotics (NYSE:XTND – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Volatility and Risk
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XTEND AI Robotics has a beta of 3.66, indicating that its share price is 266% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Hewlett Packard Enterprise and XTEND AI Robotics, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 0 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 2.70 |
| XTEND AI Robotics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise currently has a consensus price target of $65.44, suggesting a potential upside of 12.62%. XTEND AI Robotics has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 430.22%. Given XTEND AI Robotics’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe XTEND AI Robotics is more favorable than Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Profitability
This table compares Hewlett Packard Enterprise and XTEND AI Robotics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 6.60% | 15.50% | 5.00% |
| XTEND AI Robotics | -25.19% | -28.42% | -25.03% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Hewlett Packard Enterprise and XTEND AI Robotics”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | $34.30 billion | 2.25 | $57.00 million | $1.92 | 30.27 |
| XTEND AI Robotics | $30.54 million | 1.25 | -$5.27 million | ($0.54) | -3.49 |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has higher revenue and earnings than XTEND AI Robotics. XTEND AI Robotics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hewlett Packard Enterprise, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
80.8% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Hewlett Packard Enterprise beats XTEND AI Robotics on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company provides solutions that allow customers to capture, analyze, and act upon data seamlessly in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Japan. It operates in six segments: Compute, HPC & AI, Storage, Intelligent Edge, Financial Services, and Corporate Investments and Other. The company offers general purpose servers for multi-workload computing and workload-optimized servers; HPE ProLiant rack and tower servers; HPE Synergy; HPE Alletra, HPE GreenLake, Zerto, HPE InfoSight, and HPE CloudPhysics storage products; HPE Cray EX, HPE Cray XD, and converged edge systems; and HPE Superdome Flex, HPE Nonstop, and HPE Integrity products. It also provides HPE Aruba products that includes hardware products, such as Wi-Fi access points, switches, and gateways; HPE Aruba Networking software and services comprising cloud-based management, network management and access control, analytics and assurance, software-defined wide-area networking, network security, analytics and assurance, and location services software; and professional and support services, as well as as-a-service and consumption models. In addition, the company offers leasing, financing, IT consumption, and utility programs and asset management services for customers to facilitate technology deployment models and the acquisition of various IT solutions, including hardware, software, and services from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others; consultative-led services; HPE Ezmeral Container Platform; HPE Ezmeral Software Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral Software Data Fabric; OpsRamp; and Hewlett Packard Labs. It serves commercial and large enterprise groups, such as business and public sector enterprises; and through various partners comprising resellers, distribution partners, original equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors, systems integrators, and advisory firms. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Spring, Texas.
About XTEND AI Robotics
XTEND AI Robotics, Inc. designs and develops artificial intelligence-powered robotics and autonomous systems for defense, homeland security, and commercial security applications.
The company’s core platform, XOS (XTEND Operating System), functions as a hardware-agnostic, AI-native mission execution operating system that connects autonomous platforms, AI applications, payloads, sensors, and third-party developers into a unified ecosystem.
XOS provides AI Pilots software that learns skills and automates missions, a command-and-control interface for remote operation of multi-domain air and ground robotic systems, edge autonomy capabilities for GNSS-denied and confined-space environments, and an interoperability framework for integrating proprietary and third-party platforms, sensors, and payloads.
The company also manufactures and sells aerial drones, ground robots, robotic subsystems, and related hardware components.
Additionally, it operates a Marketplace that connects autonomous platforms, AI applications, payloads, sensors, and technology partners through XOS, along with an XTEND Certified program for partner products and technologies.
The company provides system integration and customization services, including platform and software configuration for specific mission requirements, third-party sensor and payload integration, interoperability with customer systems, and operator and instructor training.
It operates a global distributed manufacturing network known as XFAB, with production and operations in Israel, the United States, Latvia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom.
The company serves military end users, government agencies, defense prime contractors, law enforcement, homeland security organizations, and commercial security customers through firm fixed-price contracts, government-to-government procurement, defense prime partnerships, and direct sales and reseller channels.
XTEND AI Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Tampa, Florida.
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