Critical Analysis: Lakeland Industries (NASDAQ:LAKE) & Hub Cyber Security (NASDAQ:HUBC)

Lakeland Industries (NASDAQ:LAKE) and Hub Cyber Security (NASDAQ:HUBC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Lakeland Industries and Hub Cyber Security, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lakeland Industries	1	0	3	1	2.80
Hub Cyber Security	1	0	0	0	1.00

Lakeland Industries currently has a consensus target price of $25.00, suggesting a potential upside of 58.53%. Given Lakeland Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Lakeland Industries is more favorable than Hub Cyber Security.

Profitability

This table compares Lakeland Industries and Hub Cyber Security’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lakeland Industries	-11.22%	-3.07%	-2.01%
Hub Cyber Security	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

71.7% of Lakeland Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.7% of Hub Cyber Security shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Lakeland Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Hub Cyber Security shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility and Risk

Lakeland Industries has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hub Cyber Security has a beta of -0.99, indicating that its stock price is 199% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Lakeland Industries and Hub Cyber Security”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lakeland Industries	$191.63 million	0.79	-$18.08 million	($2.74)	-5.76
Hub Cyber Security	$29.56 million	0.39	-$39.76 million	N/A	N/A

Lakeland Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Hub Cyber Security.

Summary

Lakeland Industries beats Hub Cyber Security on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Lakeland Industries

Lakeland Industries, Inc. manufactures and sells industrial protective clothing and accessories for the industrial and public protective clothing market worldwide. It offers firefighting and heat protective apparel to protect against fire; high-end chemical protective suits to provide protection from highly concentrated, toxic and/or lethal chemicals, and biological toxins; and limited use/disposable protective clothing, such as coveralls, laboratory coats, shirts, pants, hoods, aprons, sleeves, arm guards, caps, and smocks. The company provides durable woven garments, including electrostatic dissipative apparel used in electronics clean rooms; flame resistant meta aramid, para aramid, and FR cotton coveralls/pants/jackets used in petrochemical, refining operations, and electrical utilities; FR fabrics; and cotton and polycotton coveralls, lab coats, pants, and shirts. In addition, it provides high visibility clothing comprising reflective apparel, including vests, T-shirts, sweatshirts, jackets, coats, raingear, jumpsuits, hats, and gloves; and gloves and sleeves that are used in the automotive, glass, and metal fabrication industries. The company sells its products to a network of safety and industrial supply distributors through in-house sales teams, customer service group, and independent sales representatives. It serves end users, such as integrated oil, chemical/petrochemical, automobile, steel, glass, construction, smelting, cleanroom, janitorial, pharmaceutical, and high technology electronics manufacturers, as well as scientific, medical laboratories, and the utilities industry; and federal, state, and local governmental agencies and departments. Lakeland Industries, Inc. was incorporated in 1982 and is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama.

About Hub Cyber Security

HUB Cyber Security Ltd. provides cyber security solutions in Israel and internationally. The company offers HUB Secure File Vault, a super charged managed file transfer backed by dedicated hardware driven security, which creates a secure enclave to protect the organization's data driven workflows; HUB Guard, a recurring security assessment, continuous network, and infrastructure monitoring and analysis, and planned incident response; D.Storm, a powerful SaaS DDoS simulation platform; RAM Commander, a software tool for reliability prediction and analysis, reliability block diagram, Markov chains analysis, maintainability prediction, spares optimization, FMEA/FMECA, testability, fault tree analysis, event tree analysis, and safety assessment; and Safety Commander designs to evaluate the safety of highly integrated systems in a model-based design environment. It also provides complementary trusted advisory and professional service facilitating cyber risk assessment, cyber risk mitigation, cyber incident response, quality reliability, and safety of critical systems. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.