Odysight.Ai (NASDAQ:ODYS – Get Free Report) and Nova (NASDAQ:NVMI – Get Free Report) are both business services 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.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
19.7% of Odysight.Ai shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of Nova shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Nova 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.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Odysight.Ai and Nova, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Odysight.Ai | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Nova | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2.83 |
Profitability
This table compares Odysight.Ai and Nova’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Odysight.Ai | -207.38% | -56.78% | -43.36% |
| Nova | 27.33% | 22.33% | 15.01% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Odysight.Ai and Nova”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Odysight.Ai | $3.96 million | 22.83 | -$9.44 million | ($1.03) | -5.39 |
| Nova | $672.40 million | 7.99 | $183.76 million | $5.74 | 31.97 |
Nova has higher revenue and earnings than Odysight.Ai. Odysight.Ai is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nova, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Odysight.Ai has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nova has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nova beats Odysight.Ai on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Odysight.Ai
Odysight.ai, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of customized visual solutions for organizations across a variety of industries in the form of micro cameras and supplementary technologies. Its devices can used across the medical, aerospace, industrial, research, and defense industries. The company was founded on March 22, 2013 and is headquartered in Omer, Israel.
About Nova
Nova Ltd. designs, develops, produces, and sells process control systems used in the manufacture of semiconductors in Israel, Taiwan, the United States, China, Korea, and internationally. Its product portfolio includes a set of metrology platforms for dimensional, films, and materials and chemical metrology measurements for process control for various semiconductor manufacturing process steps, including lithography, etch, chemical mechanical planarization, deposition, electrochemical plating, and advanced packaging. The company serves various sectors of the integrated circuit manufacturing industry, including logic, foundries, and memory manufacturers, as well as process equipment manufacturers. Nova Ltd. was formerly known as Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. and changed its name to Nova Ltd. in July 2021. Nova Ltd. was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Rehovot, Israel.
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