Analyzing Nauticus Robotics (KITT) and Its Competitors

Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT) is one of 100 public companies in the “Aerospace & Defense” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Nauticus Robotics to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

2.4% of Nauticus Robotics shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.9% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are held by institutional investors. 47.9% of Nauticus Robotics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.5% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Nauticus Robotics and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nauticus Robotics	0	1	1	0	2.50
Nauticus Robotics Competitors	503	2407	3252	49	2.46

Nauticus Robotics presently has a consensus target price of $3.63, indicating a potential upside of 118.37%. As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies have a potential upside of 20.89%. Given Nauticus Robotics’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Nauticus Robotics is more favorable than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares Nauticus Robotics and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nauticus Robotics	-175.68%	-2,774.34%	-61.02%
Nauticus Robotics Competitors	-471.49%	-120.06%	-6.61%

Risk & Volatility

Nauticus Robotics has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nauticus Robotics’ rivals have a beta of 1.17, meaning that their average share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nauticus Robotics	$8.77 million	-$28.26 million	-4.05
Nauticus Robotics Competitors	$4.83 billion	$87.55 million	948.13

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

Summary

Nauticus Robotics rivals beat Nauticus Robotics on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Nauticus Robotics Company Profile

Nauticus Robotics, Inc. develops and provides ocean robots, software, and services to the ocean industry. The company offers Aquanaut, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with sensor suite, which provides capability to observe and inspect subsea assets or other subsea features; and Argonaut, a derivative product of the Aquanaut that is used for non-industrial and government applications. It also provides Olympic Arm, a subsea tool; ToolKITT, a cloud software platform, which consists of interrelated products for ocean sensing, manipulation, autonomous behaviors, survey, search and recovery, and manual intervention; and Hydronaut, an optionally crewed vessel that will support the real-time operations of Aquanaut in commercial applications. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Webster, Texas.