Redwire (NYSE:RDW – Get Free Report) and Bridger Aerospace Group (NASDAQ:BAER – Get Free Report) are both small-cap aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and risk.
Risk and Volatility
Redwire has a beta of 2.49, indicating that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridger Aerospace Group has a beta of 0.18, indicating that its stock price is 82% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Redwire and Bridger Aerospace Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Redwire | -71.95% | -32.67% | -7.53% |
| Bridger Aerospace Group | -0.58% | N/A | -0.25% |
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Redwire | $304.10 million | 4.23 | -$114.32 million | ($3.25) | -2.75 |
| Bridger Aerospace Group | $126.49 million | 0.76 | -$15.57 million | ($0.58) | -2.97 |
Bridger Aerospace Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Redwire. Bridger Aerospace Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Redwire, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Redwire and Bridger Aerospace Group, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Redwire | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2.67 |
| Bridger Aerospace Group | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
Redwire presently has a consensus target price of $18.07, indicating a potential upside of 102.48%. Bridger Aerospace Group has a consensus target price of $5.25, indicating a potential upside of 205.23%. Given Bridger Aerospace Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bridger Aerospace Group is more favorable than Redwire.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
8.1% of Redwire shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.9% of Bridger Aerospace Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Redwire shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.5% of Bridger Aerospace Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Bridger Aerospace Group beats Redwire on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Redwire
Redwire Corporation provides critical space solutions and space infrastructure for government and commercial customers in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company provides avionics and sensors including star trackers, sun sensors, critical for navigation, and control of spacecraft; camera systems; solar array solutions for spacecraft spanning the spectrum of size, power needs, and orbital location; and strain composite booms, coilable booms, truss structures, telescope baffles, and deployable booms to position sensors or solar arrays away from the spacecraft. It offers software suite that enables digital engineering and generation of high-fidelity, interactive modeling and simulations of individual components, entire spacecraft, and full constellations in a cloud-based environment. In addition, the company microgravity payloads, radio frequency systems, antennas, star trackers, platforms, and in-space manufacturing and biotech facilities. Redwire Corporation is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
About Bridger Aerospace Group
Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, Inc. provides aerial wildfire management, relief and suppression, and firefighting services to federal and state government agencies in the United States. It offers fire suppression services, such as direct fire suppression aerial firefighting support services for ground crew to drop large amounts of water quickly and directly on wildfires. The company also provides aerial surveillance services, including fire suppression aircraft over an incident and tactical coordination with the incident commander through its manned and unmanned aircraft. It operates an aircraft fleet of 18 planes. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Belgrade, Montana.
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