Head to Head Contrast: CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) and Sandvik (OTCMKTS:SDVKY)

CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) and Sandvik (OTCMKTS:SDVKY) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for CVD Equipment and Sandvik, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CVD Equipment	0	1	0	0	2.00
Sandvik	1	8	3	1	2.31

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares CVD Equipment and Sandvik”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CVD Equipment	$25.79 million	1.13	-$1.59 million	$1.45	2.88
Sandvik	$12.34 billion	3.68	$1.50 billion	$1.45	24.98

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

31.6% of CVD Equipment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.7% of Sandvik shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.5% of CVD Equipment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

CVD Equipment has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sandvik has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares CVD Equipment and Sandvik’s 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%
Sandvik	13.05%	18.45%	9.99%

Summary

Sandvik beats CVD Equipment on 10 of the 13 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 Sandvik

Sandvik AB (publ), an engineering company, provides products and solutions for mining and rock excavation, metal cutting, and materials technology worldwide. The company offers mining and rock excavation equipment, including drill rigs and bolters, underground loaders and trucks, mechanical cutting equipment, rock tools and rock drills, and mining automation; rock processing equipment, such as crushers, screens, hydraulic breakers, demolition tools, and breaker booms. It also provides metal-cutting tools and tooling systems, and digital solutions and software; metal powder for additive manufacturing, and components made from controlled expansion alloys; and tungsten powders, as well as recycling services of secondary tungsten raw materials. The company serves aerospace, automotive, energy, general engineering, infrastructure, and mining industries. Sandvik AB (publ) was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.