Contrasting Blink Charging (NASDAQ:BLNK) & LSI Industries (NASDAQ:LYTS)

LSI Industries (NASDAQ:LYTS) and Blink Charging (NASDAQ:BLNK) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares LSI Industries and Blink Charging”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
LSI Industries	$689.40 million	1.12	$24.99 million	$0.67	30.99
Blink Charging	N/A	N/A	N/A	($0.40)	-0.96

LSI Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Blink Charging. Blink Charging is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LSI Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for LSI Industries and Blink Charging, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LSI Industries	0	2	3	0	2.60
Blink Charging	1	0	1	0	2.00

LSI Industries presently has a consensus target price of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 39.69%. Blink Charging has a consensus target price of $2.50, indicating a potential upside of 550.87%. Given Blink Charging’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Blink Charging is more favorable than LSI Industries.

Profitability

This table compares LSI Industries and Blink Charging’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LSI Industries	N/A	N/A	N/A
Blink Charging	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

73.9% of LSI Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.6% of Blink Charging shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of LSI Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Blink Charging shares are held by 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.

Summary

LSI Industries beats Blink Charging on 7 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About LSI Industries

LSI Industries Inc. produces and sells non-residential lighting and retail display solutions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Latin America. It operates through two segments, Lighting and Display Solutions. The Lighting segment manufactures, markets, and sells non-residential outdoor and indoor lighting fixture and control solutions in the commercial and industrial markets. This segment also offers lighting control products, including sensors, photocontrols, dimmers, motion detection, and Bluetooth systems to support lighting fixtures; and designs, engineers, and manufactures electronic circuit boards, assemblies, and sub-assemblies. The Display Solutions segment manufactures, sells, and installs exterior and interior visual image and display elements, including printed and structural graphics, digital signage, menu board systems, display fixtures, refrigerated displays, and custom display elements. This segments products and services include signage and canopy graphics, pump dispenser graphics, building fascia graphics, decals, interior signage and marketing graphics, aisle markers, wall mural graphics, and refrigerated and non-refrigerated merchandising displays. This segment also provides project management services comprising installation management, site surveys, permitting, and content management; and manages and executes the implementation of large rollout programs. It serves refueling and convenience store, parking lot and garage, quick-service restaurant, retail and grocery store, automotive, warehouse, sports court, and field markets, as well as warehouses. LSI Industries Inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

About Blink Charging

Blink Charging Co., through its subsidiaries, owns, operates, manufactures, and provides electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment and networked EV charging services in the United States and internationally. The company offers residential and commercial EV charging equipment that enable EV drivers to recharge at various location types. It also provides Blink Network, a cloud-based system that operates, maintains, and manages various Blink charging stations and associated charging data, back-end operations, and payment processing, as well as offers fleets, property owners, managers, parking companies, and state and municipal entities with cloud-based services that enable the remote monitoring and management of EV charging stations; and EV drivers with station information, including station location, availability, and applicable fees. In addition, the company offers EV charging hardware, software services, and service plans. It has strategic partnerships across transit/destination locations, including airports, auto dealers, healthcare/medicals, hotels, mixed-use and municipal locations, multifamily residential and condos, parks and recreation areas, parking lots, religious institutions, restaurants, retailers, schools and universities, stadiums, supermarkets, transportation hubs, and workplace locations. Blink Charging Co. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Bowie, Maryland.