Financial Contrast: Gauzy (NASDAQ:GAUZ) and Advent Technologies (NASDAQ:ADN)

Advent Technologies (NASDAQ:ADN) and Gauzy (NASDAQ:GAUZ) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Advent Technologies and Gauzy, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Advent Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
Gauzy	0	0	4	0	3.00

Gauzy has a consensus target price of $16.25, suggesting a potential upside of 61.21%. Given Gauzy’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gauzy is more favorable than Advent Technologies.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

17.5% of Advent Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of Advent Technologies shares are held by company 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.

Profitability

This table compares Advent Technologies and Gauzy’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Advent Technologies	-828.45%	-442.47%	-159.40%
Gauzy	-66.25%	N/A	-34.21%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Advent Technologies and Gauzy”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Advent Technologies	$7.03 million	1.88	-$71.40 million	($25.95)	-0.19
Gauzy	$94.35 million	2.04	-$79.27 million	N/A	N/A

Advent Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gauzy.

Summary

Gauzy beats Advent Technologies on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Advent Technologies

Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc., an advanced materials and technology development company, operates in the fuel cell and hydrogen technology markets in North America, Europe, and Asia. It develops, manufactures, and assembles fuel cell systems and critical components that determine the performance of hydrogen fuel cells and other energy systems. The company offers high-temperature proton exchange membrane (HT-PEM) fuel cells, including membrane electrode assemblies, bipolar plates, and reformers, as well as provides fuel-cell stack assembly and testing services. It serves stationary power, portable power, automotive, aviation, energy storage, and sensor markets. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

About Gauzy

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.