urban-gro (NASDAQ:UGRO – Get Free Report) and Reliance (NYSE:RS – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
20.6% of urban-gro shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.3% of Reliance shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of urban-gro shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Reliance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for urban-gro and Reliance, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| urban-gro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Reliance | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2.30 |
Risk & Volatility
urban-gro has a beta of -2.91, suggesting that its share price is 391% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Reliance has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares urban-gro and Reliance”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| urban-gro | $17.40 million | 0.00 | -$22.10 million | ($27.87) | -0.00 |
| Reliance | $14.29 billion | 1.50 | $739.40 million | $21.45 | 19.57 |
Reliance has higher revenue and earnings than urban-gro. urban-gro is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Reliance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares urban-gro and Reliance’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% |
| Reliance | 6.38% | 15.31% | 10.26% |
Summary
Reliance beats urban-gro on 14 of the 15 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 Reliance
Reliance, Inc. operates as a diversified metal solutions provider and the metals service center company in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company distributes a line of approximately 100,000 metal products, including alloy, aluminum, brass, copper, carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium, and specialty steel products; and provides metals processing services to general manufacturing, non-residential construction, transportation, aerospace, energy, electronics and semiconductor fabrication, and heavy industries. It sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers, which primarily include small machine shops and fabricators. The company was formerly known as Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. and changed its name to Reliance, Inc. in February 2024. Reliance, Inc. was founded in 1939 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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