Reviewing KUKA Aktiengesellschaft (OTCMKTS:KUKAY) & Spirax-Sarco Engineering (OTCMKTS:SPXSF)

Volatility and Risk

KUKA Aktiengesellschaft has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares KUKA Aktiengesellschaft and Spirax-Sarco Engineering’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
KUKA Aktiengesellschaft	1.18%	2.87%	1.06%
Spirax-Sarco Engineering	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares KUKA Aktiengesellschaft and Spirax-Sarco Engineering”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
KUKA Aktiengesellschaft	$3.89 billion	0.80	-$46.14 million	N/A	N/A
Spirax-Sarco Engineering	$2.09 billion	3.25	$228.31 million	N/A	N/A

Spirax-Sarco Engineering has lower revenue, but higher earnings than KUKA Aktiengesellschaft.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.4% of Spirax-Sarco Engineering shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

KUKA Aktiengesellschaft beats Spirax-Sarco Engineering on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About KUKA Aktiengesellschaft

KUKA Aktiengesellschaft, an automation company, provides robot-based automation solutions worldwide. It operates through five segments: Systems, Robotics, Swisslog, Swisslog Healthcare, and China. The company manufactures and supplies industrial, collaborative, and mobile robots, as well as robot controllers, software, and digital services for industrial Internet of Things. It also offers automated guided vehicles and other automation components to production cells, turnkey systems, and networked production with the aid of cloud-based IT tools; individual system components, tools and fixtures, and automated production cells; and robot-based and modular manufacturing cells, as well as support services. In addition, the company offers automated solutions for hospitals, warehouses, and distribution centers; and warehouse management systems and healthcare systems. It serves customers in the automotive, electronics, e-commerce/retail, consumer goods, metal and plastic, healthcare, and other industries. The company was formerly known as Industrie-Werke Karlsruhe Augsburg Aktiengesellschaft and changed its name to KUKA Aktiengesellschaft in 2007. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Augsburg, Germany. KUKA Aktiengesellschaft is a subsidiary of Midea Electric Netherlands (I) B.V.

About Spirax-Sarco Engineering

Spirax Group PLC provides thermal energy and fluid technology solutions. The company offers industrial and commercial steam systems, including condensate management, controls, and thermal energy management products and solutions for heating, curing, cooking, drying, cleaning, sterilizing, space heating, humidifying, vacuum packing, and producing hot water; electrical process heating and temperature management solutions, such as industrial heaters and systems, heat tracing, and various component technologies for industrial processes; and peristaltic and niche pumps and associated fluid path technologies, including tubing, specialty filling systems, and products for single-use applications. The company serves pharmaceutical and biotechnology, food, beverage, oil, gas, chemical, power generation, healthcare, water and wastewater, buildings, mining and precious metal processing, semiconductor, and transport sectors, as well as original equipment manufacturers. It operates in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; the Asia Pacific; and the Americas. The company was formerly known as Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc and changed its name to Spirax Group PLC in June 2024. Spirax Group PLC was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Cheltenham, the United Kingdom.