Universal Security Instruments (NYSE:UUU) & Leonardo DRS (NASDAQ:DRS) Head-To-Head Survey
Universal Security Instruments ( NYSE:UUU – Get Rating ) and Leonardo DRS ( NASDAQ:DRS – Get Rating ) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings and risk.
Risk and volatility
Universal Security Instruments has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Leonardo DRS has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500 .
Institutional and insider ownership
15.4% of Universal Security Instruments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.4% of Leonardo DRS shares are held by institutional investors. 10.7% of Universal Security Instruments shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Leonardo DRS shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and big money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Universal Security Instruments and Leonardo DRS, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell ratings | Keep Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong buy ratings | Rating score | |
| Universal security tools | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Leonardo DRS | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
Leonardo DRS has a consensus target price of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 44.49%. Given Leonardo DRS’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Leonardo DRS is more favorable than Universal Security Instruments.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Universal Security Instruments and Leonardo DRS’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross income | Price/sales ratio | Net income | Earnings per share | Price/Earnings ratio | |
| Universal security tools | $19.55 million | 0.25 | -$80,000.00 | ($0.04) | -52.50 |
| Leonardo DRS | $117.24 million | 5.58 | $25.07 million | $0.12 | 109.59 |
Leonardo DRS has higher revenue and earnings than Universal Security Instruments. Universal Security Instruments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Leonardo DRS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Universal Security Instruments and Leonardo DRS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on equity | Return on assets | |
| Universal security tools | -0.53% | -2.26% | -0.95% |
| Leonardo DRS | 39.19% | 55.66% | 31.52% |
Summary
Leonardo DRS beats Universal Security Instruments on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About universal security tools
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Universal Security Instruments, Inc., together with its subsidiary, designs, markets and distributes safety and security products for use in homes and businesses in the United States and internationally. It offers a range of safety alarms, including units powered by replaceable batteries, sealed batteries and battery backup alarms; and smoke alarms, which include hearing impaired and heat alarms, as well as carbon monoxide alarms, doorbells, ventilation products, ground fault circuit breakers and other electrical appliances under the UNIVERSAL and USI Electric brand names. The company supplies its products to wholesale distributors; chain, discount and television retailers; home center stores; catalog and mail order companies; electrical and lighting distributors, and manufactured housing companies; and other distributors. It also sells its products through independent sales organizations and sales representatives, as well as through its own sales catalogs and brochures, and website. The company was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.
About Leonardo DRS
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Leonardo DRS, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides defense products and technologies in the land, air, sea, space, cyber and security, and commercial domains for military applications. It operates in two segments, Advanced Sensing and Computing, and Integrated Mission Systems. The company offers advanced sensor technologies, including infrared systems and sensors for threat detection and situational awareness; uncooled infrared systems and tanning solutions; airborne, ground vehicle-mounted and dismounted soldier electronic warfare (EW) systems; and EW software and training systems, and intelligence solutions. It also provides computer systems for ground vehicles, ships and submarines; network and data distribution applications; sensor systems; and networked computing infrastructure on military platform. In addition, the company offers force protection systems, such as solutions for anti-unmanned aerial systems, short-range air defense systems and active protection systems; and power control, distribution, conversion and propulsion systems, as well as hybrid electric propulsion systems, energy storage, gas turbine packages, nuclear instrumentation and controls, and thermal management and cooling equipment. It serves the US military, aerospace and defense prime contractors, government intelligence agencies and international military customers. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.
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