Novozymes A/S (OTCMKTS:NVZMY – Get Free Report) and 5E Advanced Materials (NASDAQ:FEAM – Get Free Report) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
0.0% of Novozymes A/S shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of 5E Advanced Materials shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Novozymes A/S and 5E Advanced Materials, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Novozymes A/S | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| 5E Advanced Materials | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.25 |
Profitability
This table compares Novozymes A/S and 5E Advanced Materials’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Novozymes A/S | 13.96% | 6.38% | 4.36% |
| 5E Advanced Materials | N/A | -71.87% | -63.88% |
Risk and Volatility
Novozymes A/S has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 5E Advanced Materials has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Novozymes A/S and 5E Advanced Materials”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Novozymes A/S | $4.70 billion | 5.16 | $330.91 million | $1.69 | 34.63 |
| 5E Advanced Materials | N/A | N/A | -$31.56 million | ($2.67) | -0.79 |
Novozymes A/S has higher revenue and earnings than 5E Advanced Materials. 5E Advanced Materials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Novozymes A/S, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Novozymes A/S beats 5E Advanced Materials on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Novozymes A/S
Novozymes A/S produces and sells industrial enzymes, microorganisms, and probiotics in Denmark, rest of Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and internationally. The company offers protein solutions for the food and beverage industry. It also offers industrial hygiene, drain openers, hard surface, medical cleaning, septic tanks, ware washing, and professional laundry services. In addition, the company provides dishwashing, softener, microbial and medical cleaning services. Further, it provides corn, cotton, forages, peanuts, pulses, soybeans, wheat, small grains, bioyield, and biocontrol solutions; warm water species, recirculating aquaculture system; animal health and nutrition solutions; fiber modification, bleach boosting, deposit control, and starch modification solutions. Additionally, the company provides carbon capture, leather and textiles solutions; enzyme solutions, including corn and wheat separation, liquefaction, saccharification, filtration, isomerization, maltose, and specialties solutions; warm water species and recirculating aquaculture system solutions; human health solutions, comprising brain, oral, protective and immune, and gastrointestinal health solutions; ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, education, wastewater, and sewage sludge, and renewable diesel solutions; agriculture and industry, biogas food waste, food waste, biocatalysis, cell culture, diagnostics, enzyme, and biogas solutions. Furthermore, it provides lipases, proteases, oxidoreductases, and carbohydrases. Novozymes A/S was founded in 1925 and is based in Bagsvaerd, Denmark.
About 5E Advanced Materials
5E Advanced Materials, Inc. engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties in Australia and the United States. The company primarily explores for borates and lithium deposits. It holds 100% interest in the Fort Cady project located in the Mojave Desert region in eastern San Bernardino County, California. The company was formerly known as American Pacific Borates Limited. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Hesperia, California.
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