Reviewing Gauzy (GAUZ) & The Competition

Gauzy (NASDAQ:GAUZ) is one of 377 public companies in the “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Gauzy to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

43.3% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are owned by institutional investors. 16.4% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Gauzy and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gauzy	1	0	0	0	1.00
Gauzy Competitors	2047	7603	10429	662	2.47

As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 34.98%. Given Gauzy’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gauzy has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Gauzy and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gauzy	N/A	N/A	N/A
Gauzy Competitors	-158.11%	-25.88%	-6.86%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Gauzy and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gauzy	$103.53 million	-$53.18 million	-0.17
Gauzy Competitors	$4.13 billion	$172.92 million	5.52

Gauzy’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Gauzy. Gauzy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk and Volatility

Gauzy has a beta of -0.24, indicating that its stock price is 124% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gauzy’s peers have a beta of -0.30, indicating that their average stock price is 130% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Gauzy peers beat Gauzy on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Gauzy Company Profile

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.