Data Knights Acquisition (NASDAQ:DKDCA – Get Rating) and Luna Innovations (NASDAQ:LUNA – Get Rating) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and risk.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Data Knights Acquisition and Luna Innovations' gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Get Data Knights Acquisition alerts:| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Data Knights Acquisition | N/A | N/A | $5.14 million | N/A | N/A |
| Luna Innovations | $87.51 million | 1.71 | $1.38 million | $0.29 | 15.76 |
Data Knights Acquisition has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Luna Innovations.
Profitability
This table compares Data Knights Acquisition and Luna Innovations' net margins, return on equity and return on assets.| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Data Knights Acquisition | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Luna Innovations | 9.83% | 2.35% | 1.47% |
Risk & Volatility
Data Knights Acquisition has a beta of -0.01, indicating that its share price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Luna Innovations has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
97.3% of Data Knights Acquisition shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.6% of Luna Innovations shares are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of Luna Innovations shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Data Knights Acquisition and Luna Innovations, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Data Knights Acquisition | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Luna Innovations | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
Luna Innovations has a consensus price target of $9.75, indicating a potential upside of 113.35%. Given Luna Innovations' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Luna Innovations is more favorable than Data Knights Acquisition.
Summary
Luna Innovations beats Data Knights Acquisition on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Data Knights Acquisition
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Data Knights Acquisition Corp. does not have significant operations. It intends to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses in the data centers and internet technology sectors. The company was incorporated in 2021 and is based in Chessington, the United Kingdom.
About Luna Innovations
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Luna Innovations Incorporated develops, manufactures, and markets fiber optic test, measurement, and control products worldwide. The company offers optical test and measurement products, which include optical vector analyzer, optical backscatter reflectometers, and the Phoenix family of tunable lasers; and Hyperion sensing solution that enables full-spectrum data acquisition and flexible peak detect algorithms of fiber-bragg gratings (FBGs), long period FBGs, and fabry-perot sensors with low-latency access to data for closed loop feedback applications. It also provides polarization control products, including components, modules, and instruments to measure, manage, and control polarization and group delay in fiber optic networks; tunable lasers; single frequency lasers; temperature and strain sensing products; ODiSI sensing solution, which provides distributed strain and temperature measurements; and Terametrix terahertz gauging and imaging products that provide precise single and multi-layer thickness, density, basis weight, and caliper thickness measurements, as well as distributed acoustic sensing intellectual property and products. The company primarily markets its fiber optic test, measurement, and control products to telecommunications companies, defense agencies, government system integrators, researchers, original equipment manufacturers, distributors, testing labs, and strategic partners directly, as well as through manufacturer representative organizations, partner and distribution channels, technical sales engineers, value added resellers, and independent sales representatives. Luna Innovations Incorporated was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia.
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