Comparing Screen (OTCMKTS:DINRF) & NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Screen (OTCMKTS:DINRF) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Screen and NVIDIA”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Screen	$4.11 billion	1.49	$656.49 million	$5.92	10.93
NVIDIA	$215.94 billion	24.38	$120.07 billion	$4.90	44.21

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

Volatility & Risk

Screen has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NVIDIA has a beta of 2.34, meaning that its share price is 134% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Screen and NVIDIA, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Screen	1	0	0	0	1.00
NVIDIA	0	2	48	4	3.04

NVIDIA has a consensus target price of $275.25, indicating a potential upside of 27.07%. Given NVIDIA’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NVIDIA is more favorable than Screen.

Profitability

This table compares Screen and NVIDIA’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Screen	14.32%	19.03%	12.23%
NVIDIA	55.60%	97.37%	70.68%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

65.3% of NVIDIA shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of NVIDIA shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

NVIDIA beats Screen on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Screen

SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, sells, and maintains semiconductor production equipment in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China, the United States, Europe, and internationally. It operates in four segments: Semiconductor Production Equipment Business, Graphic Arts Equipment Business, Display Production Equipment and Coater Business, and PCB-Related Equipment Business. The company offers coat/develop trackers, wafer cleaning systems, annealing systems, measurement systems, inspection systems, and advanced packaging lithography equipment. It also provides coater systems, vacuum film deposition equipment, wet processors, dryers, heaters, exposures, and laminators/de-laminators. In addition, the company offers direct imaging systems, automatic optical inspection systems, automatic optical photomask inspection systems, and defect verification and repair systems; automatic final visual inspection systems; and setup stations and defect tabulation software. Further, it provides high-speed inkjet, label, wide format, CTP, network support, Hiragino font, and other workflow solutions; offset printing, digital book, manual, direct mail, transpromo, label production, package printing, display, and signage solutions; and artificial intelligence, text mining, augmented reality, image analysis, and congestion analysis solutions. Additionally, the company offers biosciences equipment; compact inkjet printing systems for tablets, UV inkjet printing systems for aluminum rolls, and inkjet printing systems for tablets; in-vehicle components for inspection and measurement; and lithium-ion rechargeable batteries and fuel cells. It also undertakes contract manufacturing and support, and intellectual property services related operations. The company was formerly known as Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. and changed its name to SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. in October 2014. SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA Corporation provides graphics and compute and networking solutions in the United States, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and internationally. The Graphics segment offers GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise workstation graphics; virtual GPU or vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications. The Compute & Networking segment comprises Data Center computing platforms and end-to-end networking platforms, including Quantum for InfiniBand and Spectrum for Ethernet; NVIDIA DRIVE automated-driving platform and automotive development agreements; Jetson robotics and other embedded platforms; NVIDIA AI Enterprise and other software; and DGX Cloud software and services. The company's products are used in gaming, professional visualization, data center, and automotive markets. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original device manufacturers, system integrators and distributors, independent software vendors, cloud service providers, consumer internet companies, add-in board manufacturers, distributors, automotive manufacturers and tier-1 automotive suppliers, and other ecosystem participants. NVIDIA Corporation was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.