Metso Oyj (OTCMKTS:OUKPF) vs. XOS (NASDAQ:XOS) Critical Analysis

XOS (NASDAQ:XOS) and Metso Oyj (OTCMKTS:OUKPF) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares XOS and Metso Oyj”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
XOS	$63.77 million	0.56	-$75.84 million	($10.74)	-0.42
Metso Oyj	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Metso Oyj has lower revenue, but higher earnings than XOS.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for XOS and Metso Oyj, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
XOS	0	1	2	1	3.00
Metso Oyj	0	0	0	0	N/A

XOS presently has a consensus price target of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 231.86%. Given XOS’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe XOS is more favorable than Metso Oyj.

Profitability

This table compares XOS and Metso Oyj’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
XOS	-76.21%	-84.60%	-41.69%
Metso Oyj	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

12.9% of XOS shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.6% of Metso Oyj shares are owned by institutional investors. 53.1% of XOS shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

XOS beats Metso Oyj on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About XOS

Xos, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells battery-electric commercial vehicles. The company provides class 5-6 medium duty rolling chassis, such as commercial stepvans and armored trucks; class 7-8 heavy duty chassis; and Xos product development. It offers Xos provides mix-use powertrain solutions for off-highway, industrial and other commercial equipment, and specialty vehicles, such as school buses, medical and dental clinics, blood donation vehicles, and mobile command vehicles. In addition, the company offers energy solutions, a comprehensive charging infrastructure business that offers mobile and stationary multi-application chargers, mobile energy storage, and turnkey energy infrastructure services to accelerate client transitions to electric fleets; Xos Hub, a rapid-deployment mobile charger designed to expedite fleet transitions to electric vehicles; and Xosphere, a platform that interconnects vehicle, maintenance, charging, and service data to improve overall customer experience. Further, it offers X-Pack, a proprietary battery pack technology for last-mile commercial use cases; X-Platform foundation of Xos vehicle products; and vehicle control software, which include powertrain controls, body controls, and instrument cluster and infotainment. Xos, Inc. was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

About Metso Oyj

Metso Oyj provides technologies, end-to-end solutions, and services for aggregates, minerals processing, and metals refining industries in Europe, North and Central America, South America, the Asia Pacific, Greater China, Africa, the Middle East, and India. The company operates in two segments: Aggregates and Minerals. It offers a range of equipment, parts, and services for contractors, aggregates quarries, manufacturing sand, slag recycling, and construction and demolition waste recycling; mobile equipment; and stationary equipment, such as crushers, screens, crushing and screening plants, conveyors, chutes, feeders, and air classifiers. The company provides loading and hauling, crushing, conveying, screening, grinding, floatation, magnetic separation, filtration, material handling, slurry handling, thickening and clarifying, hydrometallurgy, in-pit crush and convey, tailing management, digital twins, and automation services. In addition, the company provides spare and wear parts, which include haul truck liners, crusher spares and wears, conveyor parts, screen/feeder spares, screening media, mill liners and spares, floatation and filtration parts, stacker reclaimers parts, apron feeder parts, slurry pumps parts, thickener parts, and wear lining. Further, it offers life cycle services, maintenance and repairs, modernizations and upgrades, process optimization, and training services. The company was formerly known as Metso Outotec Oyj. Metso Oyj was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.