Financial Survey: Gentex (NASDAQ:GNTX) & Carbon Streaming (OTCMKTS:OFSTF)

Gentex (NASDAQ:GNTX) and Carbon Streaming (OTCMKTS:OFSTF) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and earnings.

Volatility & Risk

Gentex has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carbon Streaming has a beta of -78.37, suggesting that its share price is 7,937% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Gentex and Carbon Streaming, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gentex	0	7	2	0	2.22
Carbon Streaming	0	0	0	0	0.00

Gentex presently has a consensus price target of $29.14, indicating a potential upside of 11.19%. Given Gentex’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Gentex is more favorable than Carbon Streaming.

Profitability

This table compares Gentex and Carbon Streaming’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gentex	16.82%	16.86%	14.90%
Carbon Streaming	-24,943.55%	-3.74%	-3.57%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

86.8% of Gentex shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Gentex shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Carbon Streaming shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Gentex and Carbon Streaming”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gentex	$2.31 billion	2.49	$404.49 million	$1.77	14.81
Carbon Streaming	$640,000.00	41.73	-$67.37 million	($0.59)	-0.86

Gentex has higher revenue and earnings than Carbon Streaming. Carbon Streaming is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gentex, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Gentex beats Carbon Streaming on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Gentex

Gentex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and supplies digital vision, connected car, dimmable glass, and fire protection products in the United States, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Republic of Korea, and internationally. It operates through Automotive Products and Other segments. The company offers automotive products, including interior and exterior electrochromic automatic-dimming rearview mirrors, automotive electronics, and non-automatic-dimming rearview mirrors for automotive passenger cars, light trucks, pick-up trucks, sport utility vehicles, and vans for original equipment manufacturers, automotive suppliers, and various aftermarket and accessory customers. It also provides variable dimmable windows to aircraft manufacturers and airline operators. In addition, the company offers photoelectric smoke detectors and alarms, electrochemical carbon monoxide alarms and detectors, audible and visual signaling alarms, and bells and speakers used in fire detection systems in office buildings, hotels, and other commercial and residential buildings, as well as researches and develops nanofiber chemical sensing products. It sells its fire protection products directly, as well as through sales managers and manufacturer representative organizations to fire protection and security product distributors, electrical wholesale houses, and original equipment manufacturers of fire protection systems. Gentex Corporation was incorporated in 1974 and is headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan.

About Carbon Streaming

Carbon Streaming Corporation a carbon credit streaming and royalty company focused on creating shareholder value primarily through the acquisition and sale of carbon credits. It provides capital to carbon projects globally, primarily by entering into or acquiring streaming, royalty or royalty-like arrangements for the purchase of carbon credits. The company was formerly known as Mexivada Mining Corp. and changed its name to Carbon Streaming Corporation in June 2020. Carbon Streaming Corporation was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Burlington, Canada.