Conrad Industries (OTCMKTS:CNRD) vs. Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) Head to Head Contrast

Conrad Industries (OTCMKTS:CNRD) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) are both aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Volatility and Risk

Conrad Industries has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lockheed Martin has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Conrad Industries and Lockheed Martin’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Conrad Industries	5.30%	20.25%	11.34%
Lockheed Martin	5.85%	107.60%	12.13%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Conrad Industries and Lockheed Martin, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Conrad Industries	0	0	0	0	0.00
Lockheed Martin	0	14	6	1	2.38

Lockheed Martin has a consensus price target of $494.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.91%. Given Lockheed Martin’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lockheed Martin is more favorable than Conrad Industries.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.6% of Conrad Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.2% of Lockheed Martin shares are held by institutional investors. 31.5% of Conrad Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Lockheed Martin shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Conrad Industries and Lockheed Martin”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Conrad Industries	$303.41 million	0.42	$11.23 million	($0.34)	-75.24
Lockheed Martin	$71.04 billion	1.59	$5.34 billion	$17.76	27.29

Lockheed Martin has higher revenue and earnings than Conrad Industries. Conrad Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lockheed Martin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Lockheed Martin beats Conrad Industries on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Conrad Industries

Conrad Industries, Inc. engages in the construction, conversion, and repair of various steel and aluminum marine vessels in the United States. The company builds harbor tugs; specialty barges, such as crane, deck, ABS class, dry bulk cargo, aggregate, and well stim barges; inland tank, LPG inland tank, LPG pressure, LPG tank, and DS tank barges; and offshore support vessels, including liftboats, crew boats, offshore supply vessels, and offshore tugs, as well as other support equipment, such as deck and crane barges. It also builds inland pushboats comprising inland towboats, inland river push boats, and towboats; and ferries, which consist of passenger, and passenger and vehicle ferries. In addition, the company offers repairs and conversions, including electrical, mechanical, propulsion, and hull repairs to large-scale conversions of ships and barges; and engages in the fabrication of modular components for offshore floating production, storage, and offloading vessels, as well as drilling rigs. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Morgan City, Louisiana.

About Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin Corporation, a security and aerospace company, engages in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of technology systems, products, and services worldwide. The company operates through Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control, Rotary and Mission Systems, and Space segments. The Aeronautics segment offers combat and air mobility aircraft, unmanned air vehicles, and related technologies. The Missiles and Fire Control segment provides air and missile defense systems; tactical missiles and air-to-ground precision strike weapon systems; logistics; fire control systems; mission operations support, readiness, engineering support, and integration services; manned and unmanned ground vehicles; and energy management solutions. The Rotary and Mission Systems segment offers military and commercial helicopters, surface ships, sea and land-based missile defense systems, radar systems, sea and air-based mission and combat systems, command and control mission solutions, cyber solutions, and simulation and training solutions. The Space segment offers satellites; space transportation systems; strategic, advanced strike, and defensive systems; and classified systems and services in support of national security systems. This segment also provides network-enabled situational awareness and integrates space and ground global systems to help its customers gather, analyze, and securely distribute critical intelligence data. It serves primarily serves the U.S. government, as well as foreign military sales contracted through the U.S. government. The company was founded in 1912 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.