urban-gro (NASDAQ:UGRO – Get Free Report) and GATX (NYSE:GATX – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares urban-gro and GATX”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| urban-gro | $17.40 million | 0.01 | -$22.10 million | ($27.87) | -0.00 |
| GATX | $1.74 billion | 3.60 | $333.30 million | $10.10 | 17.58 |
Profitability
This table compares urban-gro and GATX’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| urban-gro | -82.11% | -118.44% | -33.76% |
| GATX | 17.94% | 10.43% | 2.12% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
20.6% of urban-gro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of GATX shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of urban-gro shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of GATX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Volatility and Risk
urban-gro has a beta of -2.91, suggesting that its stock price is 391% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GATX has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for urban-gro and GATX, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| urban-gro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| GATX | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.00 |
GATX has a consensus price target of $219.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.33%. Given GATX’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe GATX is more favorable than urban-gro.
Summary
GATX beats urban-gro on 13 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 GATX
GATX Corporation, together its subsidiaries, operates as railcar leasing company in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and India. It operates through three segments: Rail North America, Rail International, and Portfolio Management. The company leases tank and freight railcars, and locomotives for petroleum, chemical, food/agriculture, and transportation industries. It also offers maintenance services, including the interior cleaning of railcars, routine maintenance and repair of car body and safety appliances, regulatory compliance works, wheelset replacements, interior blast and lining, exterior blast and painting, and car stenciling services. In addition, the company manufactures commercial aircraft jet engines and leases aircraft spare engines; and owns and manages tank containers that are leased to chemical, industrial gas, energy, food, cryogenic and pharmaceutical industries, and tank container operators, as well as provides tank container sourcing, remarketing, and inspection and maintenance services. As of December 31, 2023, it owned and operated a fleet of approximately 148,500 railcars; 493 four-axle and 30 six-axle locomotives; 399 aircraft spare engines; and 23,931 tank containers. GATX Corporation was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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