ams-OSRAM (OTCMKTS:AMSSY – Get Free Report) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Profitability
This table compares ams-OSRAM and NVIDIA’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| ams-OSRAM | -9.74% | -7.58% | -1.01% |
| NVIDIA | 63.66% | 96.04% | 71.00% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares ams-OSRAM and NVIDIA”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| ams-OSRAM | $3.76 billion | 0.52 | -$147.08 million | ($1.91) | -5.15 |
| NVIDIA | $215.94 billion | 23.68 | $120.07 billion | $7.91 | 26.82 |
NVIDIA has higher revenue and earnings than ams-OSRAM. ams-OSRAM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NVIDIA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for ams-OSRAM and NVIDIA, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| ams-OSRAM | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.33 |
| NVIDIA | 0 | 2 | 50 | 3 | 3.02 |
NVIDIA has a consensus target price of $324.34, indicating a potential upside of 52.87%. Given NVIDIA’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe NVIDIA is more favorable than ams-OSRAM.
Risk & Volatility
ams-OSRAM has a beta of 1.75, meaning that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NVIDIA has a beta of 2.22, meaning that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
65.3% of NVIDIA shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of NVIDIA shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
NVIDIA beats ams-OSRAM on 15 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About ams-OSRAM
ams-OSRAM AG designs, manufactures, and sells LED and optical sensor solutions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Asia/Pacific. The company operates in Semiconductors and Lamps & Systems segments. The Semiconductors segment offers semiconductor-based products and solutions, such as high-performance LEDs, lasers, and optical sensors for automotive, consumer, and industrial and medical technology end markets. The Lamps & Systems segment provides lamps and lighting systems for the automotive, industrial, and medical end markets. The company was formerly known as ams AG and changed its name to ams-OSRAM AG in January 2022. ams-OSRAM AG is headquartered in Premstätten, Austria.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications. The Compute & Networking segment comprises Data Center computing platforms and end-to-end networking platforms, including Quantum for InfiniBand and Spectrum for Ethernet; NVIDIA DRIVE automated-driving platform and automotive development agreements; Jetson robotics and other embedded platforms; NVIDIA AI Enterprise and other software; and DGX Cloud software and services. The company's products are used in gaming, professional visualization, data center, and automotive markets. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original device manufacturers, system integrators and distributors, independent software vendors, cloud service providers, consumer internet companies, add-in board manufacturers, distributors, automotive manufacturers and tier-1 automotive suppliers, and other ecosystem participants. NVIDIA Corporation was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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