Head to Head Survey: BrewBilt Manufacturing (OTCMKTS:BBRW) and CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV)

BrewBilt Manufacturing (OTCMKTS:BBRW) and CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares BrewBilt Manufacturing 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
BrewBilt Manufacturing	N/A	N/A	N/A	($0.24)	N/A
CVD Equipment	$26.88 million	1.09	-$1.90 million	($0.02)	-212.00

BrewBilt Manufacturing has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CVD Equipment. CVD Equipment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrewBilt Manufacturing, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for BrewBilt Manufacturing and CVD Equipment, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BrewBilt Manufacturing	0	0	0	0	0.00
CVD Equipment	1	0	0	0	1.00

Given BrewBilt Manufacturing’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BrewBilt Manufacturing is more favorable than CVD Equipment.

Volatility & Risk

BrewBilt Manufacturing has a beta of 2.26, indicating that its share price is 126% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVD Equipment has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares BrewBilt Manufacturing and CVD Equipment’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BrewBilt Manufacturing	N/A	N/A	N/A
CVD Equipment	-0.66%	-0.72%	-0.60%

About BrewBilt Manufacturing

BrewBilt Manufacturing Inc. custom designs, hand crafts, and integrates brewing, fermentation, and distillation processing systems for the craft beer industry in California. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Grass Valley, California.

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.