Financial Survey: Vicor (NASDAQ:VICR) & American Battery Technology (NASDAQ:ABAT)

American Battery Technology (NASDAQ:ABAT) and Vicor (NASDAQ:VICR) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

9.9% of American Battery Technology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.5% of Vicor shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of American Battery Technology shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 28.3% of Vicor shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility & Risk

American Battery Technology has a beta of 0.32, suggesting that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vicor has a beta of 2.35, suggesting that its stock price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for American Battery Technology and Vicor, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
American Battery Technology	1	0	0	1	2.50
Vicor	0	2	3	0	2.60

American Battery Technology presently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 151.05%. Vicor has a consensus target price of $381.67, indicating a potential upside of 42.23%. Given American Battery Technology’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe American Battery Technology is more favorable than Vicor.

Profitability

This table compares American Battery Technology and Vicor’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
American Battery Technology	-337.50%	-64.63%	-61.52%
Vicor	30.65%	19.83%	18.18%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares American Battery Technology and Vicor”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
American Battery Technology	$21.74 million	15.67	-$73.38 million	($0.57)	-4.19
Vicor	$452.70 million	27.33	$118.56 million	$3.12	86.01

Vicor has higher revenue and earnings than American Battery Technology. American Battery Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vicor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Vicor beats American Battery Technology on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About American Battery Technology

American Battery Technology Company operates as a battery materials company. The company explores for resources of battery metals, such as such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese; and develops and commercializes technologies for the extraction of battery metals, as well as commercializes integrated process for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries. The company was formerly known as American Battery Metals Corporation. American Battery Technology Company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

About Vicor

Vicor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets modular power components and power systems for converting electrical power in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company offers a range of brick-format DC-DC converters; complementary components provide AC line rectification, input filtering, power factor correction, and transient protection; and input and output voltage, and output power products, as well as electrical and mechanical accessories. It also design, sells, and service custom power systems solutions. The company serves independent manufacturers of electronic devices, original equipment manufacturers, and their contract manufacturers in the aerospace and aviation, defense electronics, satellites, factory automation, instrumentation, test equipment, transportation, telecommunications and networking infrastructure and vehicles, and transportation markets. Vicor Corporation was incorporated in 1981 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.