Head to Head Analysis: Gauzy (GAUZ) and Its Rivals

Gauzy (NASDAQ:GAUZ) is one of 70 publicly-traded companies in the “Miscellaneous electrical machinery, equipment, & supplies” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Gauzy to related companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gauzy	0	2	3	0	2.60
Gauzy Competitors	249	927	1639	87	2.54

Gauzy currently has a consensus target price of $13.50, suggesting a potential upside of 58.64%. As a group, “Miscellaneous electrical machinery, equipment, & supplies” companies have a potential upside of 42.63%. Given Gauzy’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Gauzy is more favorable 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	-66.25%	N/A	-34.21%
Gauzy Competitors	-158.22%	-62.28%	-23.32%

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gauzy	$101.17 million	-$79.27 million	-2.09
Gauzy Competitors	$598.80 million	-$51.48 million	2.58

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.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

41.9% of shares of all “Miscellaneous electrical machinery, equipment, & supplies” companies are owned by institutional investors. 14.9% of shares of all “Miscellaneous electrical machinery, equipment, & supplies” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Gauzy peers beat Gauzy on 7 of the 12 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.