Reviewing urban-gro (UGRO) and Its Rivals

urban-gro (NASDAQ:UGRO) is one of 158 publicly-traded companies in the “Trading Companies & Distributors” industry, but how does it compare to its rivals? We will compare urban-gro to related companies based on the strength of its dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

20.6% of urban-gro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.9% of shares of all “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of urban-gro shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of shares of all “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares urban-gro and its rivals’ 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%
urban-gro Competitors	0.71%	-34.50%	3.14%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares urban-gro and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
urban-gro	$17.40 million	-$22.10 million	-0.00
urban-gro Competitors	$6.64 billion	$365.60 million	20.71

urban-gro’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than urban-gro. urban-gro 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.

Risk and Volatility

urban-gro has a beta of -2.91, suggesting that its stock price is 391% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, urban-gro’s rivals have a beta of 1.30, suggesting that their average stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for urban-gro and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
urban-gro	1	0	0	0	1.00
urban-gro Competitors	1425	4871	6666	221	2.43

As a group, “Trading Companies & Distributors” companies have a potential upside of 15.00%. Given urban-gro’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe urban-gro has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Summary

urban-gro rivals beat urban-gro on 13 of the 13 factors compared.

urban-gro Company Profile

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.