Critical Survey: Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW) versus SMX (Security Matters) Public (NASDAQ:SMX)

SMX (Security Matters) Public (NASDAQ:SMX – Get Rating) and Curtiss-Wright (NYSE:CW – Get Rating) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for SMX (Security Matters) Public and Curtiss-Wright, as reported by MarketBeat.

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Curtiss-Wright has a consensus price target of $186.80, suggesting a potential upside of 13.38%. Given Curtiss-Wright’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Curtiss-Wright is more favorable than SMX (Security Matters) Public.

Risk and Volatility

SMX (Security Matters) Public has a beta of -0.86, indicating that its stock price is 186% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Curtiss-Wright has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares SMX (Security Matters) Public and Curtiss-Wright’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Curtiss-Wright has higher revenue and earnings than SMX (Security Matters) Public.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

73.1% of SMX (Security Matters) Public shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.0% of Curtiss-Wright shares are held by institutional investors. 9.4% of SMX (Security Matters) Public shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Curtiss-Wright shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares SMX (Security Matters) Public and Curtiss-Wright’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Summary

Curtiss-Wright beats SMX (Security Matters) Public on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SMX (Security Matters) Public

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Lionheart III Corp is a blank check company. It intends to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or related business combination with one or more businesses. Lionheart III Corp is based in Miami, Florida.

About Curtiss-Wright

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Curtiss-Wright Corp. is a global integrated business that provides engineered products, solutions, and services mainly to the aerospace and defense markets, as well as critical technologies in demanding commercial power, process, and industrial markets. It operates through the following three segments: Aerospace & Industrial, Defense Electronics, and Naval & Power. The Aerospace & Industrial segment offers engineered products and services supporting critical applications primarily across the commercial aerospace and general industrial markets, including industrial and specialty vehicle products, such as electronic throttle control devices, joysticks, and transmission shifters, sensors, controls, and electro-mechanical actuation components used on commercial and military aircraft, and surface technology services, such as shot peening, laser peening, and engineered coatings. The Defense Electronics segment includes Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) embedded computing board-level modules, data acquisition and flight test instrumentation equipment, integrated subsystems, instrumentation and control systems, tactical communications solutions for battlefield network management, and electro

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