CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) & Wuhan General Group (OTCMKTS:WUHN) Head-To-Head Review

Wuhan General Group (OTCMKTS:WUHN) and CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) are both industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Risk & Volatility

Wuhan General Group has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVD Equipment has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Wuhan General Group and CVD Equipment, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Wuhan General Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
CVD Equipment	1	0	0	0	1.00

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Wuhan General Group and CVD Equipment”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Wuhan General Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
CVD Equipment	$26.88 million	1.01	-$1.90 million	($0.02)	-196.00

Wuhan General Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CVD Equipment.

Profitability

This table compares Wuhan General Group and CVD Equipment’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Wuhan General Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
CVD Equipment	-0.66%	-0.72%	-0.60%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

31.6% of CVD Equipment shares are owned by institutional investors. 61.1% of Wuhan General Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.7% of CVD Equipment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

About Wuhan General Group

Wuhan General Group (China), Inc., through its subsidiaries, researches, develops, and commercializes a range of cannabidiol (CBD)-based products under the Dr. AnnaRx brand for pharmacies. It also focuses on exploring and developing other indications for psilocybin new therapies that will enable patients who suffer from mental illness. The company offers its products for medical applications, including cancer, mental disorders, chronic pain, and others. Wuhan General Group (China), Inc. is headquartered in Pointe-Claire, Canada.

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.