Contrasting XTI Aerospace (NASDAQ:XTIA) and HashiCorp (NASDAQ:HCP)

XTI Aerospace (NASDAQ:XTIA) and HashiCorp (NASDAQ:HCP) are both aerospace companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.

Volatility & Risk

XTI Aerospace has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HashiCorp has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares XTI Aerospace and HashiCorp’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
XTI Aerospace	$4.56 million	1.24	-$45.95 million	N/A	N/A
HashiCorp	$583.14 million	11.57	-$190.67 million	($0.96)	-34.95

XTI Aerospace has higher earnings, but lower revenue than HashiCorp.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

11.7% of XTI Aerospace shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of HashiCorp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of XTI Aerospace shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.5% of HashiCorp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares XTI Aerospace and HashiCorp’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
XTI Aerospace	-982.52%	-505.62%	-105.53%
HashiCorp	-31.13%	-14.27%	-10.51%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for XTI Aerospace and HashiCorp, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
XTI Aerospace	0	0	0	0	N/A
HashiCorp	0	11	3	0	2.21

HashiCorp has a consensus target price of $31.17, indicating a potential downside of 7.10%. Given HashiCorp’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HashiCorp is more favorable than XTI Aerospace.

Summary

HashiCorp beats XTI Aerospace on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About XTI Aerospace

XTI Aircraft Company manufactures vertical takeoff airplanes. The company provides TriFan 600, which lifts off vertically. XTI Aircraft Company was formerly known as AVX Aircraft Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to XTI Aircraft Company in March 2015. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Englewood, Colorado.

About HashiCorp

HashiCorp, Inc. engages in the provision of multi-cloud infrastructure automation solutions worldwide. The company offers infrastructure provisioning products, including Terraform, that enables IT operations teams to apply an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, where processes and configuration required to support applications are codified and automated instead of being manual and ticket-based; Packer, that provides a consistent way to define the process of transforming the raw source inputs into a production worthy artifact, across any environment or packaging format; and Vagrant, that allows teams to define how development environments are set up. It also provides security products, such as Vault, a secrets management and data protection product, which enables security teams to apply policies based on application and user identity to govern access to credentials and secure sensitive data; and Boundary, that applies an identity-based approach to privileged access management and unifies the controls to a single system. In addition, the company offers Consul, an application-centric networking automation product that enables practitioners to manage application traffic, security teams to secure and restrict access between applications, and operations teams to automate the underlying network infrastructure; Nomad, a scheduler and workload orchestrator, which provides practitioners with a self-service interface to manage the application lifecycle; and Waypoint, an application delivery product that provides a developer-focused workflow for the build, deploy, and release process. Further, it provides HashiCorp Cloud Platform, a fully-managed cloud platform for multiple products to accelerate enterprise cloud migration by addressing resource and skills gaps, improving operational efficiency, and speeding up deployment time for customers. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.