Titan International (NYSE:TWI) versus urban-gro (NASDAQ:UGRO) Head-To-Head Contrast

urban-gro (NASDAQ:UGRO) and Titan International (NYSE:TWI) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for urban-gro and Titan International, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
urban-gro	0	0	0	1	4.00
Titan International	0	0	3	0	3.00

Titan International has a consensus target price of $11.33, indicating a potential upside of 29.01%. Given Titan International’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Titan International is more favorable than urban-gro.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

20.6% of urban-gro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Titan International shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.9% of urban-gro shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.5% of Titan International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares urban-gro and Titan International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
urban-gro	N/A	N/A	N/A
Titan International	-1.24%	-1.62%	-0.53%

Volatility and Risk

urban-gro has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Titan International has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares urban-gro and Titan International”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
urban-gro	$71.54 million	0.09	-$25.44 million	($1.12)	-0.44
Titan International	$1.85 billion	0.30	-$5.56 million	($0.31)	-28.34

Titan International has higher revenue and earnings than urban-gro. Titan International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than urban-gro, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Titan International beats urban-gro on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About urban-gro

urban-gro, Inc. engages in the designing, engineering, building, and integrating complex environmental equipment systems for indoor controlled environment agriculture (CEA) cultivation and retail facilities in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The company provides architectural design, engineering, and construction services comprising pre-construction, cultivation space programming (CSP), architectural and interior design, engineering, integrated cultivation design, owner's representative/construction management, and general contracting services; and maintenance, training, and support services. It also offers facility and equipment commissioning services; gro-care crop and asset protection services, including training services, equipment maintenance services, asset protection program, and an interactive online operating support system for gro-care and client document delivery and project management; and property condition assessment services. In addition, the company provides integrated equipment systems solutions, such as design, source, and integration of complex environmental equipment systems comprising heating, ventilation, and air conditioning solutions, as well as environmental control, fertigation, irrigation distribution, water treatment, and wastewater reclamation systems; and commercial horticulture lighting solutions, rolling and automated container benching systems, specialty fans, microbial mitigation, and odor reduction systems. Further, it offers value-Added Reselling (VAR) of cultivation equipment systems; and strategic vendor relationships with premier manufacturers. It primarily markets and sells its solutions to clients in the CEA that includes operators and facilitators in the cannabis and produce markets; and commercial sectors comprising food and beverage consumer packaged goods companies, healthcare, higher education, and hospitality. urban-gro, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Lafayette, Colorado.

About Titan International

Titan International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells wheels, tires, and undercarriage systems and components for off-highway vehicles in the United States and internationally. The company operates in Agricultural, Earthmoving/Construction, and Consumer segments. It offers wheels, tires, and undercarriage systems and components for various agricultural equipment, including tractors, combines, skidders, plows, planters, and irrigation equipment. The company also offers wheels, tires, and undercarriage systems and components for off-the-road earthmoving, mining, military, construction, and forestry equipment, including skid steers, aerial lifts, cranes, graders and levelers, scrapers, self-propelled shovel loaders, articulated dump trucks, load transporters, haul trucks, backhoe loaders, crawler tractors, lattice cranes, shovels, and hydraulic excavators. In addition, it provides bias and light truck tires; and products for ATVs, rock climbers, and turf applications, as well as specialty products and train brakes. It sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers, as well as to the aftermarket through independent distributors, equipment dealers, and its distribution centers. Titan International, Inc. was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in West Chicago, Illinois.