CVD Equipment (CVV) Competitors

CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) and Amtech Systems (NASDAQ:ASYS) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, risk and community ranking.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CVV or ASYS?

Amtech Systems received 175 more outperform votes than CVD Equipment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.10% of users gave Amtech Systems an outperform vote while only 40.06% of users gave CVD Equipment an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CVD Equipment	Outperform Votes 127 40.06%	Underperform Votes 190 59.94%
Amtech Systems	Outperform Votes 302 59.10%	Underperform Votes 209 40.90%

Do analysts prefer CVV or ASYS?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CVD Equipment	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Amtech Systems	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has more volatility and risk, CVV or ASYS?

CVD Equipment has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amtech Systems has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in CVV or ASYS?

31.6% of CVD Equipment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.2% of Amtech Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 27.8% of CVD Equipment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.9% of Amtech Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, CVV or ASYS?

CVD Equipment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Amtech Systems. Amtech Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CVD Equipment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CVD Equipment	$24.11M	0.84	-$4.18M	-$0.77	-3.83
Amtech Systems	$113.32M	0.68	-$12.58M	-$1.41	-3.87

Is CVV or ASYS more profitable?

Amtech Systems has a net margin of -19.05% compared to CVD Equipment's net margin of -24.34%. Amtech Systems' return on equity of -4.16% beat CVD Equipment's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CVD Equipment	-24.34%	-20.25%	-14.86%
Amtech Systems	-19.05%	-4.16%	-2.72%

Does the media favor CVV or ASYS?

In the previous week, Amtech Systems had 1 more articles in the media than CVD Equipment. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Amtech Systems and 1 mentions for CVD Equipment. Amtech Systems' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat CVD Equipment's score of -0.50 indicating that Amtech Systems is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CVD Equipment	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Negative
Amtech Systems	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Amtech Systems beats CVD Equipment on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.