Analyzing CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) and Global Payment Technologies (OTCMKTS:GPTX)

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

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares CVD Equipment and Global Payment Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CVD Equipment	$26.88 million	0.98	-$1.90 million	($0.02)	-190.50
Global Payment Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Global Payment Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CVD Equipment.

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. Comparatively, 10.1% of Global Payment Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares CVD Equipment and Global Payment Technologies’ 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%
Global Payment Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for CVD Equipment and Global Payment Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CVD Equipment	1	0	0	0	1.00
Global Payment Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00

Given Global Payment Technologies’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Global Payment Technologies is more favorable than CVD Equipment.

Risk and Volatility

CVD Equipment has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Payment Technologies has a beta of -16.64, suggesting that its share price is 1,764% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

CVD Equipment beats Global Payment Technologies on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

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 Global Payment Technologies

Global Payment Technologies Inc. designs and manufactures currency validators and paper currency stackers. Its equipment is used to process currency in gaming machines and vending machines that dispense products, services, coins, and other currencies. Its customers include gaming equipment and vending machine manufacturers in the United States and internationally. Global Payment Technologies Inc. was formerly known as Coin Bill Validator Inc. and changed its name to Global Payment Technologies Inc. in November 1994. The company was incorporated in 1988 and is based in Hauppauge, New York.