Syntec Optics (NASDAQ:OPTX – Get Free Report) and Odysight.ai (NASDAQ:ODYS – Get Free Report) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Profitability
This table compares Syntec Optics and Odysight.ai’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Syntec Optics | -8.26% | -16.50% | -8.68% |
| Odysight.ai | -1,669.72% | -78.20% | -67.46% |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Syntec Optics and Odysight.ai”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Syntec Optics | $28.08 million | 6.99 | -$1.79 million | ($0.06) | -81.17 |
| Odysight.ai | $3.02 million | 11.86 | -$17.03 million | ($1.11) | -1.59 |
Syntec Optics has higher revenue and earnings than Odysight.ai. Syntec Optics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Odysight.ai, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Syntec Optics and Odysight.ai, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Syntec Optics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Odysight.ai | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2.60 |
Odysight.ai has a consensus price target of $8.57, suggesting a potential upside of 384.46%. Given Odysight.ai’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Odysight.ai is more favorable than Syntec Optics.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
19.7% of Odysight.ai shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Syntec Optics shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 46.9% of Odysight.ai shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Risk & Volatility
Syntec Optics has a beta of -0.71, indicating that its share price is 171% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Odysight.ai has a beta of -0.34, indicating that its share price is 134% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Odysight.ai beats Syntec Optics on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Syntec Optics
Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc. manufactures and supplies integrated optics for biomedical, defense and military, consumer, and other applications. It offers camera modules; tool design, design for manufacturing, optical and opto-mechanical design, and moldflow analysis; SPDT optics, such as freedom optics, microlens arrays, spheres and aspheres, diffractives, SPDT materials, and optical tooling; replicative molding, that includes polymer and glass molding, and molded production materials; thin film coating and coating curve materials; and precision machining and precision machining materials. The company also provides clean room assembly, such as opto mechanical, opto electronic, and integrated photonics; infrared optics, microlens arrays, software development, and optical metrology, and catalog optics services. In addition, it offers driverless cars, integrated photonics, robotics, sensors, VR and AR, machine vision, facial imagining, heads up display, finger print scanners, and laser scanners technology for consumers; night vision goggles, missile laser guides, biometrics, infrared and thermal imaging, ordnance optics, head mounted displays, 2D and 3D scanners, humvee lighting , laser targeting, protective domes and windows, and lidar technologies for defense and miliary; and medical diagnostic, microfluidics, surgical components and systems, and medical sensing technology for medical sectors. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Rochester, New York.
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.
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