Head to Head Contrast: American Battery Technology (NASDAQ:ABAT) vs. ABB (OTCMKTS:ABBNY)

American Battery Technology (NASDAQ:ABAT) and ABB (OTCMKTS:ABBNY) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares American Battery Technology and ABB’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
American Battery Technology	-337.50%	-64.63%	-61.52%
ABB	13.86%	31.25%	11.17%

Risk and Volatility

American Battery Technology has a beta of 0.42, meaning that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ABB has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for American Battery Technology and ABB, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
American Battery Technology	1	0	1	1	2.67
ABB	0	10	1	2	2.38

American Battery Technology currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 242.86%. Given American Battery Technology’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe American Battery Technology is more favorable than ABB.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares American Battery Technology and ABB”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
American Battery Technology	$21.74 million	11.48	-$73.38 million	($0.57)	-3.07
ABB	$33.22 billion	5.29	$4.73 billion	$2.77	34.78

ABB has higher revenue and earnings than American Battery Technology. American Battery Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ABB, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

9.9% of American Battery Technology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.1% of ABB shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of American Battery Technology shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of ABB shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

ABB beats American Battery Technology on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About American Battery Technology

American Battery Technology Company operates as a battery materials company. The company explores for resources of battery metals, such as such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese; and develops and commercializes technologies for the extraction of battery metals, as well as commercializes integrated process for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries. The company was formerly known as American Battery Metals Corporation. American Battery Technology Company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

About ABB

ABB Ltd provides electrification, motion, and automation solutions and products for customers in utilities, industry and transport, and infrastructure in Switzerland, rest of Europe, the Americas, the United States, rest of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, China, and internationally. Its Electrification segment offers renewable power solutions, modular substation packages, distribution automation products, switchboards and panelboards, switchgears, UPS solutions, circuit breakers, measuring and sensing devices, control products, wiring accessories, enclosures and cabling systems, and intelligent home and building solutions. The company's Motion segment designs, manufactures, and sells drives, motors, generators, and traction converters that are driving the low-carbon future for industries, cities, infrastructure, and transportation. The company's Process Automation segment provides control technologies, industrial software, advanced analytics, sensing and measurement technology, and marine propulsion systems; and repair, remote monitoring, preventive maintenance, asset performance management, emission monitoring, and cybersecurity services. The company's Robotics & Discrete Automation segment offers industrial and collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robotics, mapping and navigation solutions, robotic solutions, field services, spare parts, and digital services. This segment also provides solutions based on its programmable logic controllers, industrial PCs, servo motion, transport systems, and machine vision. It serves oil, gas, chemicals, mining, metals, cement, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, battery manufacturing, food and beverage, power generation, water, marine, and ports industries. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.