Comparing Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ:KITT) and CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV)

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Nauticus Robotics and CVD Equipment, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nauticus Robotics	1	0	0	0	1.00
CVD Equipment	0	1	0	0	2.00

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nauticus Robotics	-1,758.70%	-1,067.00%	-81.40%
CVD Equipment	62.01%	-13.91%	-12.52%

Volatility & Risk

Nauticus Robotics has a beta of -0.08, suggesting that its share price is 108% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVD Equipment has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Nauticus Robotics and CVD Equipment”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nauticus Robotics	$5.28 million	0.29	-$40.83 million	($329.27)	-0.00
CVD Equipment	$25.79 million	1.03	-$1.59 million	$1.45	2.63

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

20.5% of Nauticus Robotics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.6% of CVD Equipment shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.3% of Nauticus Robotics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.5% of CVD Equipment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

CVD Equipment beats Nauticus Robotics on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Nauticus Robotics

Nauticus Robotics, Inc. develops ocean robots, cloud software, and services to the ocean industry. The company offers Aquanaut, an autonomous underwater vehicle with sensor suite, which provides capability to observe and inspect subsea assets or other subsea features; Olympic Arm, an all-electric manipulator designed for a variety of intervention tasks on work class remotely operated vehicles; and ToolKITT, a software platform, which consists of interrelated products for ocean sensing, manipulation, autonomous behaviors, survey, search and recovery, and manual intervention. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Webster, Texas.

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.