Insider and Institutional Ownership
9.1% of Lightbridge shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Lightbridge shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.5% of TSS shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility & Risk
Lightbridge has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TSS has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Lightbridge and TSS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Lightbridge | N/A | -37.03% | -35.89% |
| TSS | 3.59% | 87.89% | 11.84% |
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Lightbridge | N/A | N/A | -$7.91 million | ($0.81) | -8.42 |
| TSS | $148.14 million | 1.01 | $70,000.00 | $0.24 | 26.00 |
TSS has higher revenue and earnings than Lightbridge. Lightbridge is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TSS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
TSS beats Lightbridge on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Lightbridge
Lightbridge Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in developing nuclear fuel technology. It develops and commercializes metallic nuclear fuels. The company was formerly known as Thorium Power, Ltd. and changed its name to Lightbridge Corporation in September 2009. Lightbridge Corporation is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
About TSS
TSS, Inc. offers planning, design, engineering, construction management, commissioning and maintenance services. It provides these services primarily for specialized facilities such as data centers, communications rooms, call centers, laboratories, trading floors, network operations centers, medical facilities and similar environments. TSS Inc., formerly known as Fortress International Group, Inc., is based in Columbia, United States.
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