Head to Head Review: Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT) versus Redwire (NYSE:RDW)

Redwire (NYSE:RDW) and Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares Redwire and Nauticus Robotics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Redwire	-57.26%	-11.02%	-8.17%
Nauticus Robotics	-1,758.70%	-1,067.00%	-81.40%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

8.1% of Redwire shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.5% of Nauticus Robotics shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Redwire shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.3% of Nauticus Robotics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Redwire and Nauticus Robotics”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Redwire	$426.27 million	6.34	-$226.55 million	($1.46)	-7.41
Nauticus Robotics	$4.08 million	1.04	-$40.83 million	($54.89)	-0.01

Nauticus Robotics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Redwire. Redwire is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nauticus Robotics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Redwire and Nauticus Robotics, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Redwire	2	4	5	1	2.42
Nauticus Robotics	1	0	0	0	1.00

Redwire presently has a consensus price target of $14.69, indicating a potential upside of 35.76%. Given Redwire’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Redwire is more favorable than Nauticus Robotics.

Volatility and Risk

Redwire has a beta of 3.08, suggesting that its share price is 208% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nauticus Robotics has a beta of -0.2, suggesting that its share price is 120% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Redwire beats Nauticus Robotics on 11 of the 15 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 Nauticus Robotics

Nauticus Robotics, Inc. develops ocean robots, cloud software, and services to the ocean industry. The company offers Aquanaut, an autonomous underwater vehicle with sensor suite, which provides capability to observe and inspect subsea assets or other subsea features; Olympic Arm, an all-electric manipulator designed for a variety of intervention tasks on work class remotely operated vehicles; and ToolKITT, a software platform, which consists of interrelated products for ocean sensing, manipulation, autonomous behaviors, survey, search and recovery, and manual intervention. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Webster, Texas.