Head-To-Head Review: Odysight.Ai (NASDAQ:ODYS) and Nova (NASDAQ:NVMI)

Odysight.Ai (NASDAQ:ODYS) and Nova (NASDAQ:NVMI) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.

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 & Valuation

This table compares Odysight.Ai and Nova”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Odysight.Ai	$3.96 million	23.33	-$9.44 million	($1.03)	-5.50
Nova	$672.40 million	7.83	$183.76 million	$5.74	31.32

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.

Insider and 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 company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

Odysight.Ai has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nova has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Odysight.Ai and Nova, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Odysight.Ai	0	0	1	0	3.00
Nova	0	1	6	0	2.86

Odysight.Ai presently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 76.37%. Nova has a consensus target price of $250.83, indicating a potential upside of 39.52%. Given Odysight.Ai’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Odysight.Ai is more favorable than Nova.

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.