Head to Head Contrast: Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) & Gauzy (NASDAQ:GAUZ)

Gauzy (NASDAQ:GAUZ) and Keysight Technologies (NYSE:KEYS) are both technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.

Profitability

This table compares Gauzy and Keysight Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gauzy	N/A	N/A	N/A
Keysight Technologies	19.08%	24.34%	13.10%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Gauzy and Keysight Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gauzy	1	0	0	0	1.00
Keysight Technologies	0	3	11	0	2.79

Keysight Technologies has a consensus target price of $401.42, indicating a potential upside of 40.38%. Given Keysight Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Keysight Technologies is more favorable than Gauzy.

Risk & Volatility

Gauzy has a beta of -0.24, suggesting that its stock price is 124% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Keysight Technologies has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Gauzy and Keysight Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gauzy	$96.81 million	0.08	-$53.18 million	($41.00)	-0.17
Keysight Technologies	$5.38 billion	9.06	$850.00 million	$7.28	39.28

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

84.6% of Keysight Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Keysight Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Keysight Technologies beats Gauzy on 14 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Gauzy

Gauzy Ltd. is a fully-integrated light and vision control company which focused on the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of vision and light control technologies. It operates principally in Germany, France, the United States, Canada, China, Singapore and Dubai. Gauzy Ltd. is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies, Inc. provides electronic design and test solutions to commercial communications, networking, aerospace, defense and government, automotive, energy, semiconductor, electronic, and education industries in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Communications Solutions Group and Electronic Industrial Solutions Group. It offers electronic design automation (EDA) software; instrument measurement software, instrument workflow software, and software testing; digital multimeter, phase noise measurement, power meters and power sensors, counters, LCR meters and impedance measurement products, and electrometers; and spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers and exercisers, bit error ratio testers, noise figure analyzers, AC and DC power analyzers, materials test equipment, device current waveform analyzers, and curve tracers. The company also provides waveform and function generators, arbitrary waveform generators, DC power supplies, and DC electronic loads; wireless drive test, radio access and core network test, wireless analyzers, wireless network emulators, and over-the-air test; application and threat intelligence, cloud test, cyber training simulator, network test hardware, synthetic traffic generators, protocol and load test, network security test, and network modeling; bypass switches, clock synchronization, cloud visibility, network and application monitoring, network packet brokers, and network taps; and application-specific test systems, photonic test and measurement products, and MMIC millimeter-wave and microwave devices. In addition, it offers product support, technical support, installation, training, engineering, and integration services. The company sells its products through direct sales force, distributors, resellers, and manufacturer's representatives. Keysight Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Santa Rosa, California.