Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT – Get Free Report) and Syntec Optics (NASDAQ:OPTX – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
20.5% of Nauticus Robotics shares are held by institutional investors. 26.3% of Nauticus Robotics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Syntec Optics shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Nauticus Robotics and Syntec Optics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Nauticus Robotics | -1,292.09% | -9,200.82% | -80.63% |
| Syntec Optics | -10.95% | -30.86% | -12.35% |
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Nauticus Robotics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Syntec Optics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Nauticus Robotics and Syntec Optics”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Nauticus Robotics | $5.28 million | 1.56 | -$40.83 million | ($71.50) | -0.02 |
| Syntec Optics | $28.08 million | 11.88 | -$1.79 million | ($0.08) | -112.75 |
Syntec Optics has higher revenue and earnings than Nauticus Robotics. Syntec Optics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nauticus Robotics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk & Volatility
Nauticus Robotics has a beta of -0.22, meaning that its share price is 122% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Syntec Optics has a beta of -0.93, meaning that its share price is 193% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Syntec Optics beats Nauticus Robotics on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Syntec Optics
Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc. manufactures and supplies integrated optics for biomedical, defense and military, consumer, and other applications. It offers camera modules; tool design, design for manufacturing, optical and opto-mechanical design, and moldflow analysis; SPDT optics, such as freedom optics, microlens arrays, spheres and aspheres, diffractives, SPDT materials, and optical tooling; replicative molding, that includes polymer and glass molding, and molded production materials; thin film coating and coating curve materials; and precision machining and precision machining materials. The company also provides clean room assembly, such as opto mechanical, opto electronic, and integrated photonics; infrared optics, microlens arrays, software development, and optical metrology, and catalog optics services. In addition, it offers driverless cars, integrated photonics, robotics, sensors, VR and AR, machine vision, facial imagining, heads up display, finger print scanners, and laser scanners technology for consumers; night vision goggles, missile laser guides, biometrics, infrared and thermal imaging, ordnance optics, head mounted displays, 2D and 3D scanners, humvee lighting , laser targeting, protective domes and windows, and lidar technologies for defense and miliary; and medical diagnostic, microfluidics, surgical components and systems, and medical sensing technology for medical sectors. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Rochester, New York.
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