Liberty Defense (DETX) vs. Its Peers Financial Survey

Liberty Defense (NASDAQ:DETX) is one of 377 publicly-traded companies in the “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Liberty Defense to related companies based on the strength of its dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Liberty Defense and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Liberty Defense	$1.50 million	-$14.13 million	-2.18
Liberty Defense Competitors	$3.99 billion	$184.17 million	26.12

Liberty Defense’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Liberty Defense. Liberty Defense is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Liberty Defense and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Liberty Defense	N/A	N/A	N/A
Liberty Defense Competitors	-241.57%	-151.77%	-7.19%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Liberty Defense and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Liberty Defense	1	0	0	0	1.00
Liberty Defense Competitors	1959	7365	10079	607	2.47

As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 12.87%. Given Liberty Defense’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Liberty Defense has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

43.6% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are held by institutional investors. 16.4% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are held by company 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.

Summary

Liberty Defense competitors beat Liberty Defense on 9 of the 12 factors compared.

About Liberty Defense

Liberty Defense Holdings Ltd. provides multi-technology security solutions for concealed weapons detection in high volume foot traffic areas and locations requiring enhanced security such as airports, stadiums, schools and more. Liberty Defense Holdings Ltd. is based in WILMINGTON, Mass.