Odysight.Ai (NASDAQ:ODYS – Get Free Report) and Nova (NASDAQ:NVMI – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Odysight.Ai and Nova, as provided 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 |
Odysight.Ai currently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 86.92%. Nova has a consensus target price of $264.60, indicating a potential upside of 50.67%. Given Odysight.Ai’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Odysight.Ai is more favorable than Nova.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Odysight.Ai | -207.38% | -56.78% | -43.36% |
| Nova | 27.33% | 22.33% | 15.01% |
Institutional & Insider 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 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.
Risk & Volatility
Odysight.Ai has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nova has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Odysight.Ai and Nova”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Odysight.Ai | $3.96 million | 22.01 | -$9.44 million | ($1.03) | -5.19 |
| Nova | $672.40 million | 7.65 | $183.76 million | $5.74 | 30.60 |
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.
Summary
Nova beats Odysight.Ai on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Odysight.Ai
Odysight.ai Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, produces, and markets visual sensing and AI-based video analytics solutions in Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company, through its visualization technology offers solutions across predictive maintenance and condition-based monitoring markets in various sectors, such as medical, defense, energy, automotive, transportation, aviation, maritime, and industrial non-destructing-testing. Odysight.ai Inc. is based 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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