Contrasting CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) & Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT)

CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) and Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.

Risk & Volatility

CVD Equipment has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nauticus Robotics has a beta of -0.08, suggesting that its share price is 108% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

31.6% of CVD Equipment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.5% of Nauticus Robotics shares are held by institutional investors. 23.5% of CVD Equipment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 26.3% of Nauticus Robotics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares CVD Equipment and Nauticus Robotics”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CVD Equipment	$25.79 million	1.03	-$1.59 million	$1.45	2.63
Nauticus Robotics	$5.28 million	0.29	-$40.83 million	($329.27)	-0.00

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

Profitability

This table compares CVD Equipment and Nauticus Robotics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CVD Equipment	62.01%	-13.91%	-12.52%
Nauticus Robotics	-1,758.70%	-1,067.00%	-81.40%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for CVD Equipment and Nauticus Robotics, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CVD Equipment	0	1	0	0	2.00
Nauticus Robotics	1	0	0	0	1.00

Summary

CVD Equipment beats Nauticus Robotics on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CVD Equipment

CVD Equipment Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells equipment to develop and manufacture materials and coatings in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: CVD Equipment, Stainless Design Concepts, and CVD Materials. The CVD Equipment segment offers chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor transport, and thermal process equipment under the FirstNano brand for various markets, such as high power electronics, aerospace advanced materials for gas turbine jet engines, and nanomaterials used in batteries, as well as semiconductors, LEDs, carbon nanotubes, nanowires, solar cells, and other industrial and research applications. The Stainless Design Concepts segment provides ultra-high purity gas and chemical delivery control systems, including gas cylinder storage cabinets, custom gas and chemical delivery systems, gas and liquid valve manifold boxes, and gas isolation boxes for semiconductor fabrication processes, aerospace, solar cells, LEDs, carbon nanotubes, nanowires, and industrial applications. The CVD Materials segment offers products related to advanced materials and coatings, such as MesoPlasma printing services and products comprising heaters, antennas, and sensors to aerospace, satellite, power generation, defense, and other markets. The company also provides annealing, diffusion, and low pressure chemical vapor deposition furnaces; and standard and custom fabricated quartz-ware used in its equipment and other customer tools. The company was incorporated in 1982 and is headquartered in Central Islip, New York.

About Nauticus Robotics

Nauticus Robotics, Inc. develops ocean robots, cloud software, and services to the ocean industry. The company offers Aquanaut, an autonomous underwater vehicle with sensor suite, which provides capability to observe and inspect subsea assets or other subsea features; Olympic Arm, an all-electric manipulator designed for a variety of intervention tasks on work class remotely operated vehicles; and ToolKITT, a software platform, which consists of interrelated products for ocean sensing, manipulation, autonomous behaviors, survey, search and recovery, and manual intervention. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Webster, Texas.