Reviewing BrewBilt Manufacturing (OTCMKTS:BBRW) & CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV)

CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) and BrewBilt Manufacturing (OTCMKTS:BBRW) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for CVD Equipment and BrewBilt Manufacturing, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CVD Equipment	1	0	0	0	1.00
BrewBilt Manufacturing	0	0	0	0	0.00

Given BrewBilt Manufacturing’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BrewBilt Manufacturing is more favorable than CVD Equipment.

Profitability

This table compares CVD Equipment and BrewBilt Manufacturing’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CVD Equipment	-0.66%	-0.72%	-0.60%
BrewBilt Manufacturing	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares CVD Equipment and BrewBilt Manufacturing”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CVD Equipment	$28.25 million	1.05	-$1.90 million	($0.02)	-213.50
BrewBilt Manufacturing	N/A	N/A	N/A	($0.24)	N/A

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

31.6% of CVD Equipment shares are held by institutional investors. 28.7% of CVD Equipment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

CVD Equipment has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrewBilt Manufacturing has a beta of 5.1, indicating that its share price is 410% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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 BrewBilt Manufacturing

BrewBilt Manufacturing Inc. custom designs, hand crafts, and integrates brewing, fermentation, and distillation processing systems for the craft beer industry in California. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Grass Valley, California.