Black Titan (BTTC) vs. Its Peers Critical Analysis

Black Titan (NASDAQ:BTTC) is one of 48 publicly-traded companies in the “Services – Computer Programming And Data Processing” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Black Titan to similar companies based on the strength of its dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

57.9% of shares of all “Services – Computer Programming And Data Processing” companies are owned by institutional investors. 53.7% of Black Titan shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.6% of shares of all “Services – Computer Programming And Data Processing” companies are owned 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Black Titan and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Black Titan	$180,000.00	-$4.71 million	-0.58
Black Titan Competitors	$233.35 million	-$56.06 million	-11.25

Black Titan’s competitors have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Black Titan. Black Titan is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Risk and Volatility

Black Titan has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Black Titan’s competitors have a beta of 0.54, suggesting that their average share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Black Titan and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Black Titan	N/A	-108.60%	-95.64%
Black Titan Competitors	-37.79%	-997.78%	-64.21%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Black Titan and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Black Titan	1	0	0	0	1.00
Black Titan Competitors	96	199	216	12	2.28

As a group, “Services – Computer Programming And Data Processing” companies have a potential upside of 137.60%. Given Black Titan’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Black Titan has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Summary

Black Titan competitors beat Black Titan on 7 of the 12 factors compared.

About Black Titan

Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developingproprietary therapeutics for the treatment of central nervous system disorders, cancer, and other serious and life threatening diseases. In the central nervous system arena, the company is developing iloperidone, which is clinical testing for schizophrenia through a licensing and development agreement with Novartis Pharma AG. Novartis has tradenamed the product Zomaril.