Innovative Eyewear (NASDAQ:LUCY – Get Free Report) and Phibro Animal Health (NASDAQ:PAHC – Get Free Report) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
Volatility & Risk
Innovative Eyewear has a beta of 3.25, indicating that its stock price is 225% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Phibro Animal Health has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings for Innovative Eyewear and Phibro Animal Health, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Innovative Eyewear | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Phibro Animal Health | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2.29 |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
1.0% of Innovative Eyewear shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of Phibro Animal Health shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Innovative Eyewear shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 50.1% of Phibro Animal Health shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Innovative Eyewear and Phibro Animal Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Innovative Eyewear | -327.92% | -82.35% | -76.76% |
| Phibro Animal Health | 4.85% | 36.26% | 7.52% |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Innovative Eyewear and Phibro Animal Health”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Innovative Eyewear | $1.64 million | 3.43 | -$7.77 million | ($2.17) | -0.48 |
| Phibro Animal Health | $1.30 billion | 1.28 | $48.26 million | $1.66 | 24.70 |
Phibro Animal Health has higher revenue and earnings than Innovative Eyewear. Innovative Eyewear is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Phibro Animal Health, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Phibro Animal Health beats Innovative Eyewear on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Innovative Eyewear
Innovative Eyewear, Inc. develops and sells smart eyeglasses and sunglasses. The company's flagship product is Lucyd Lyte glasses that enable the wearer to listen to music, take and make calls, and use voice assistants to perform various smartphone tasks hands-free. It also offers Vyrb, a social media application that enables the user to receive and send posts through Lucyd Lyte smart glasses with voice. In addition, the company launches an application, Lucyd app for iOS/Android users. It sells its products through various e-commerce, and retail store and distribution channels. Innovative Eyewear, Inc. has a license agreement with Lucyd Ltd. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in North Miami, Florida. Innovative Eyewear, Inc. is a subsidiary of Lucyd Ltd.
About Phibro Animal Health
Phibro Animal Health Corporation operates as an animal health and mineral nutrition company in the United States, Israel, Brazil, Ireland, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Animal Health, Mineral Nutrition, and Performance Products. The company develops, manufactures, and markets various products for food and companion animals including poultry, swine, beef and dairy cattle, aquaculture, and dogs. It also offers animal health products, such as antibacterials, anticoccidials, nutritional specialty, and vaccines and vaccine adjuvants for animal’s health and performance, food safety, and animal welfare; and engages in development, manufacturing, and marketing of microbial and bioproducts for various applications serving animal health and nutrition, environmental, industrial, and agricultural customers. In addition, the company develops, manufactures, and markets conventionally licensed and autogenous vaccine products, as well as adjuvants for animal vaccine manufacturers. Further, it provides formulations and concentrations of trace minerals, such as zinc, manganese, copper, iron, and other compounds to fortify the daily feed requirements of their livestock’s diets and maintain optimal balance of trace elements in animals. Additionally, the company offers specialty ingredients for personal care, industrial chemical, and chemical catalyst industries. It sells its animal health and mineral nutrition products through local sales offices to integrated poultry, swine, and cattle producers, as well as through commercial animal feed manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Philipp Brothers Chemicals, Inc. and changed its name to Phibro Animal Health Corporation in July 2003. Phibro Animal Health Corporation was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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