Comparing Odysight.Ai (NASDAQ:ODYS) & KLA (NASDAQ:KLAC)

KLA (NASDAQ:KLAC) and Odysight.Ai (NASDAQ:ODYS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for KLA and Odysight.Ai, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
KLA	0	6	12	0	2.67
Odysight.Ai	0	0	1	0	3.00

KLA currently has a consensus price target of $804.67, suggesting a potential upside of 26.45%. Odysight.Ai has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 88.32%. Given Odysight.Ai’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Odysight.Ai is more favorable than KLA.

Volatility and Risk

KLA has a beta of 1.37, meaning that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Odysight.Ai has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares KLA and Odysight.Ai”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
KLA	$10.85 billion	7.80	$2.76 billion	$23.78	26.76
Odysight.Ai	$3.96 million	21.84	-$9.44 million	($1.03)	-5.16

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

Profitability

This table compares KLA and Odysight.Ai’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
KLA	29.58%	108.60%	24.20%
Odysight.Ai	-207.38%	-56.78%	-43.36%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

86.7% of KLA shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.7% of Odysight.Ai shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of KLA shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

KLA beats Odysight.Ai on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About KLA

KLA Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB and Component Inspection. The company offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned wafers; metrology systems that are used to measure pattern dimensions, film thickness, film stress, layer-to-layer alignment, pattern placement, surface topography, and electro-optical properties for wafers; chemical process control equipment; wired and wireless sensor wafers and reticles; wafer defect inspection, review, and metrology systems; reticle inspection and metrology systems; and semiconductor software solutions that provide run-time process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification to accelerate yield learning rates and reduce production risk. It also provides etch, plasma dicing, deposition, and other wafer processing technologies and solutions for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry. In addition, the company offers direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet and additive printing, UV laser drilling, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions for the PCB market; inspection and electrical testing systems to identify and classify defects, as well as systems to repair defects for the display market; and inspection and metrology systems for quality control and yield improvement in advanced and traditional semiconductor packaging markets. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. KLA Corporation was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

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.