Financial Review: Rail Vision (RVSN) versus The Competition

Rail Vision (NASDAQ:RVSN) is one of 378 public companies in the “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Rail Vision to related businesses based on the strength of its dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Rail Vision and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Rail Vision	$2.27 million	-$11.10 million	-0.05
Rail Vision Competitors	$114.93 billion	$190.55 million	0.08

Rail Vision’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Rail Vision. Rail Vision is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

12.1% of Rail Vision shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.5% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are owned by institutional investors. 8.7% of Rail Vision shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Rail Vision and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Rail Vision	N/A	N/A	N/A
Rail Vision Competitors	-184.55%	-150.00%	-6.93%

Risk & Volatility

Rail Vision has a beta of -1.16, meaning that its stock price is 216% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rail Vision’s competitors have a beta of -0.31, meaning that their average stock price is 131% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Rail Vision and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Rail Vision	1	1	0	0	1.50
Rail Vision Competitors	2002	7531	10264	628	2.47

As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 28.35%. Given Rail Vision’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Rail Vision has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Summary

Rail Vision competitors beat Rail Vision on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

About Rail Vision

Rail Vision Ltd. designs, develops, assembles, and sells railway detection systems for railway operational safety, efficiency, and predictive maintenance in Israel. The company's railway detection systems include various cameras, such as optics, visible light spectrum cameras (video), and thermal cameras that transmit data to a ruggedized on-board computer that is designed to be suitable for the rough environment of a train's locomotive. It offers main line systems for the safety of train operations, prevention of collisions, and reduction of downtime; railway detection system for passengers and freight trains; shunting yard systems for shunting operations; and light rail vehicle systems for detecting and classifying obstacles. The company also provides rail vision big data services, as well as maintenance and predictive maintenance systems; and geographic information systems for mapping and updates. Rail Vision Ltd. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel.