Syntec Optics (NASDAQ:OPTX – Get Free Report) and Gogoro (NASDAQ:GGR – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Syntec Optics and Gogoro”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Syntec Optics | $28.08 million | 14.27 | -$1.79 million | ($0.08) | -124.38 |
| Gogoro | $280.77 million | 0.21 | -$79.97 million | ($4.72) | -0.85 |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Syntec Optics and Gogoro, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Syntec Optics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Gogoro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
15.9% of Gogoro shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Syntec Optics shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Gogoro shares are held by 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.
Risk and Volatility
Syntec Optics has a beta of -0.93, suggesting that its stock price is 193% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gogoro has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Syntec Optics and Gogoro’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Syntec Optics | -10.95% | -30.86% | -12.35% |
| Gogoro | -24.98% | -55.12% | -10.59% |
Summary
Gogoro beats Syntec Optics on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Syntec Optics
Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc. manufactures and supplies integrated optics for biomedical, defense and military, consumer, and other applications. It offers camera modules; tool design, design for manufacturing, optical and opto-mechanical design, and moldflow analysis; SPDT optics, such as freedom optics, microlens arrays, spheres and aspheres, diffractives, SPDT materials, and optical tooling; replicative molding, that includes polymer and glass molding, and molded production materials; thin film coating and coating curve materials; and precision machining and precision machining materials. The company also provides clean room assembly, such as opto mechanical, opto electronic, and integrated photonics; infrared optics, microlens arrays, software development, and optical metrology, and catalog optics services. In addition, it offers driverless cars, integrated photonics, robotics, sensors, VR and AR, machine vision, facial imagining, heads up display, finger print scanners, and laser scanners technology for consumers; night vision goggles, missile laser guides, biometrics, infrared and thermal imaging, ordnance optics, head mounted displays, 2D and 3D scanners, humvee lighting , laser targeting, protective domes and windows, and lidar technologies for defense and miliary; and medical diagnostic, microfluidics, surgical components and systems, and medical sensing technology for medical sectors. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Rochester, New York.
About Gogoro
Gogoro Inc. provides battery swapping services in Taiwan, India, and internationally. It also develops Swap and Go battery system that delivers full power to electric-powered two-wheelers. In addition, the company offers battery swapping technology in the form of hardware, software, and service, including Gogoro Smart Batteries, GoStation, Gogoro Network Software & Battery Management Systems, Smartscooter, GoReward, and related components and kits. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan.
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