Head to Head Survey: Kyocera (OTCMKTS:KYOCY) and Odysight.ai (NASDAQ:ODYS)

Kyocera (OTCMKTS:KYOCY) and Odysight.ai (NASDAQ:ODYS) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

Risk and Volatility

Kyocera has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Odysight.ai has a beta of -0.48, meaning that its share price is 148% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Kyocera and Odysight.ai’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Kyocera	6.78%	4.17%	3.04%
Odysight.ai	-1,669.72%	-78.20%	-67.46%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

7.4% of Kyocera shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.7% of Odysight.ai shares are owned by institutional investors. 46.9% of Odysight.ai shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Kyocera and Odysight.ai, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Kyocera	0	1	0	0	2.00
Odysight.ai	1	1	2	1	2.60

Odysight.ai has a consensus target price of $8.57, indicating a potential upside of 294.25%. Given Odysight.ai’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Odysight.ai is more favorable than Kyocera.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Kyocera and Odysight.ai”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Kyocera	$13.75 billion	2.41	$936.46 million	$0.67	36.70
Odysight.ai	$3.02 million	14.58	-$17.03 million	($1.11)	-1.96

Kyocera has higher revenue and earnings than Odysight.ai. Odysight.ai is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kyocera, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Kyocera beats Odysight.ai on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Kyocera

Kyocera Corporation develops, produces, and distributes products based on fine ceramic technologies in Japan, rest of Asia, Europe, the United States, and internationally. It operates through Core Components Business, Electronic Components Business, and Solutions Business segments. The Core Components Business segment offers components, such as fine ceramic components for semiconductor processing equipment, automotive camera modules, and ceramic packages, as well as organic packages and boards to protect electronic components and ICs to industrial machinery, automotive-related, and the information and communication-related markets; optical components, and jewelry and applied ceramic related products; and medical devices comprising prosthetic joints and dental implants. The Electronic Components Business segment provides various electronic components and devices, including capacitors, crystal devices, connectors, and power semiconductor devices for diverse fields comprising information and communications, industrial equipment, automotive-related, and consumer markets, as well as sensors and control components. The Solutions Business segment offers cutting tools, as well as pneumatic and power tools for automotive-related and general industrial, and construction markets; printers for offices; and communication terminals, such as mobile phones, as well as information systems and telecommunication services. This segment also provides MFPs, commercial inkjet printers, communication modules, displays, and printing devices, as well as information systems and telecommunication, smart energy-related products and services, and solution services, such as document management system. The company was formerly known as Kyoto Ceramic Kabushiki Kaisha and changed its name to Kyocera Corporation in 1982. Kyocera Corporation was incorporated in 1946 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.

About Odysight.ai

Odysight.ai, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of customized visual solutions for organizations across a variety of industries in the form of micro cameras and supplementary technologies. Its devices can used across the medical, aerospace, industrial, research, and defense industries. The company was founded on March 22, 2013 and is headquartered in Omer, Israel.