Critical Review: N-able (NYSE:NABL) versus Odysight.ai (NASDAQ:ODYS)

Odysight.ai (NASDAQ:ODYS) and N-able (NYSE:NABL) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares Odysight.ai and N-able’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Odysight.ai	-1,739.44%	-66.30%	-58.33%
N-able	-1.99%	3.40%	1.96%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Odysight.ai and N-able”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	$3.02 million	22.32	-$17.03 million	($1.10)	-3.65
N-able	$511.43 million	1.52	-$17.03 million	($0.05)	-82.30

N-able is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Odysight.ai, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility and Risk

Odysight.ai has a beta of -0.52, suggesting that its stock price is 152% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, N-able has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

19.7% of Odysight.ai shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.3% of N-able shares are owned by institutional investors. 46.9% of Odysight.ai shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of N-able shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Odysight.ai and N-able, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Odysight.ai	1	0	2	0	2.33
N-able	2	3	3	0	2.12

Odysight.ai currently has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 149.38%. N-able has a consensus target price of $7.55, suggesting a potential upside of 83.48%. Given Odysight.ai’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Odysight.ai is more favorable than N-able.

Summary

N-able beats Odysight.ai on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Odysight.ai

Odysight.ai, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of customized visual solutions for organizations across a variety of industries in the form of micro cameras and supplementary technologies. Its devices can used across the medical, aerospace, industrial, research, and defense industries. The company was founded on March 22, 2013 and is headquartered in Omer, Israel.

About N-able

N-able, Inc. provides cloud-based software solutions for managed service providers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company's solutions enable MSPs to support digital transformation and growth within small and medium-sized enterprises. It provides software platform designed to be an integrated, enterprise-grade solution that serves as an operating system for its MSP partners and scales as their businesses grow. In addition, the company offers remote monitoring and management solutions provide MSP partners with visibility and insights into the availability and performance of their customers' networks, infrastructure, devices and applications through a centralized dashboard; data protection as-a-service solutions, such as backup and disaster recovery for servers, virtual machines, workstations, files, data, and key cloud-based applications, as well as multi-tenant platform and secure remote delivery architecture. Further, it offers security services through patch management, endpoint security, managed detection and response, web protection, e-mail security, and archiving and vulnerability assessment solutions. Additionally, the company engages in professional services automation, automation and scripting management, password management policies and reporting, and analytics. N-able, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.