Critical Review: EchoStar (NASDAQ:SATS) & Antelope Enterprise (NASDAQ:AEHL)

Antelope Enterprise (NASDAQ:AEHL) and EchoStar (NASDAQ:SATS) are both multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and earnings.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Antelope Enterprise and EchoStar”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Antelope Enterprise	$70.85 million	0.03	-$2.03 million	N/A	N/A
EchoStar	$16.02 billion	0.40	-$1.70 billion	($9.16)	-2.56

Antelope Enterprise has higher earnings, but lower revenue than EchoStar.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

33.6% of EchoStar shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.3% of Antelope Enterprise shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 55.9% of EchoStar shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Antelope Enterprise has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EchoStar has a beta of 0.7, indicating that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Antelope Enterprise and EchoStar’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Antelope Enterprise	N/A	N/A	N/A
EchoStar	-15.51%	-0.64%	-0.22%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Antelope Enterprise and EchoStar, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Antelope Enterprise	0	0	0	0	0.00
EchoStar	1	3	1	0	2.00

EchoStar has a consensus target price of $20.50, indicating a potential downside of 12.47%. Given EchoStar’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe EchoStar is more favorable than Antelope Enterprise.

Summary

EchoStar beats Antelope Enterprise on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Antelope Enterprise

Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides livestream e-commerce services and business management and information systems consulting services in the People's Republic of China. The company operates an online social ecommerce and live broadcast streaming platform enhances product promotion, transaction speed, and marketing effectiveness of industries and applications to anchors and influencers. It also provides business management consulting; and information system technology consulting services, including the sales of software use rights for digital data deposit platforms and asset management systems, and online social media platform development and consulting. The company was formerly known as China Ceramics Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited in October 2020. Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Jinjiang, the People's Republic of China.

About EchoStar

EchoStar Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides networking technologies and services worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Pay-TV, Retail Wireless, 5G Network Deployment, Broadband and Satellite Services. The Pay-TV segment offers a direct broadcast and fixed satellite services; designs, develops, and distributes receiver system; and provides digital broadcast operations, including satellite uplinking/downlinking, transmission and, other services to third-party pay-TV providers; and multichannel, live-linear and on-demand streaming over-the-top internet-based domestic, international, Latino, and Freestream video programming services under the DISH and SLING brand names. The Retail Wireless segment provides prepaid and postpaid wireless services under the Boost Mobile, Boost postpaid, and Gen Mobile brands, as well various wireless devices. The Network Deployment segment deploys a facilities-based 5G broadband network and commercializes deployment of 5G VoNR. The Broadband and Satellite Services offers broadband services to consumer customers, which include home, and small to medium-sized businesses; and satellite and multi-transport technologies, and managed network services to telecommunications providers, aeronautical service providers, civilian and defense government entities, and other enterprise customers. EchoStar Corporation was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.