Nukkleus (DFNS) vs. Its Competitors Financial Review

Nukkleus (NASDAQ:DFNS) is one of 229 publicly-traded companies in the “Aerospace & Defense” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Nukkleus to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Nukkleus and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nukkleus	1	0	0	1	2.50
Nukkleus Competitors	2152	8250	12739	579	2.50

As a group, “Aerospace & Defense” companies have a potential upside of 29.00%. Given Nukkleus’ rivals higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nukkleus has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Nukkleus and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nukkleus	$5.91 million	$78.55 million	-0.01
Nukkleus Competitors	$8.44 billion	$569.54 million	24.94

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

Profitability

This table compares Nukkleus and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nukkleus	N/A	N/A	-26.92%
Nukkleus Competitors	-278.26%	-46.47%	-4.05%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

12.5% of Nukkleus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.5% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are owned by institutional investors. 11.1% of Nukkleus shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of shares of all “Aerospace & Defense” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Nukkleus has a beta of -6, meaning that its share price is 700% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nukkleus’ rivals have a beta of 1.32, meaning that their average share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Nukkleus rivals beat Nukkleus on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

Nukkleus Company Profile

Nukkleus Inc., a financial technology company, provides blockchain-enabled technology solutions worldwide. It focuses on providing software and technology solutions for retail foreign exchange trading industry. The company provides transactions platform for dealing and risk management services. It also offers cross-border payment and transactions solutions and blockchain-enabled financial services solutions to institutional investors. In addition, the company provides software, technology, customer sales and marketing, and risk management technology hardware and software solutions. Nukkleus Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.