Syntec Optics (NASDAQ:OPTX – Get Free Report) and AmpliTech Group (NASDAQ:AMPG – Get Free Report) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.
Volatility and Risk
Syntec Optics has a beta of -0.77, indicating that its stock price is 177% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AmpliTech Group has a beta of -0.22, indicating that its stock price is 122% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Syntec Optics and AmpliTech Group”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Syntec Optics | $29.24 million | 10.60 | -$1.79 million | ($0.06) | -128.32 |
| AmpliTech Group | $25.20 million | 4.13 | -$7.01 million | ($0.34) | -10.19 |
Syntec Optics has higher revenue and earnings than AmpliTech Group. Syntec Optics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AmpliTech Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Syntec Optics and AmpliTech Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Syntec Optics | -8.26% | -16.50% | -8.68% |
| AmpliTech Group | -33.37% | -19.55% | -14.76% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Syntec Optics and AmpliTech Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Syntec Optics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| AmpliTech Group | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
AmpliTech Group has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 102.02%. Given AmpliTech Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AmpliTech Group is more favorable than Syntec Optics.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
11.0% of AmpliTech Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Syntec Optics shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of AmpliTech Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
About Syntec Optics
Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc. manufactures and supplies integrated optics for biomedical, defense and military, consumer, and other applications. It offers camera modules; tool design, design for manufacturing, optical and opto-mechanical design, and moldflow analysis; SPDT optics, such as freedom optics, microlens arrays, spheres and aspheres, diffractives, SPDT materials, and optical tooling; replicative molding, that includes polymer and glass molding, and molded production materials; thin film coating and coating curve materials; and precision machining and precision machining materials. The company also provides clean room assembly, such as opto mechanical, opto electronic, and integrated photonics; infrared optics, microlens arrays, software development, and optical metrology, and catalog optics services. In addition, it offers driverless cars, integrated photonics, robotics, sensors, VR and AR, machine vision, facial imagining, heads up display, finger print scanners, and laser scanners technology for consumers; night vision goggles, missile laser guides, biometrics, infrared and thermal imaging, ordnance optics, head mounted displays, 2D and 3D scanners, humvee lighting , laser targeting, protective domes and windows, and lidar technologies for defense and miliary; and medical diagnostic, microfluidics, surgical components and systems, and medical sensing technology for medical sectors. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Rochester, New York.
About AmpliTech Group
AmpliTech Group, Inc. designs, engineers, and assembles micro-wave component-based amplifiers. The company’s products include radio frequency (RF) amplifiers and related subsystems, such as low noise amplifiers for use in receivers of various communication systems comprising Wi-Fi, radar, satellite, base station, cell phone, radio, etc.; and medium power amplifiers that provide enhanced output power and gain in transceiver chains. It provides specialty microwave block downconverters used as a test device on satellite access point antennas; specialty microwave 1:2 Tx protection switch panels that is used in satellite communication earth stations; desktop/benchtop and compact wideband power amplifiers used in SATCOM rack mount systems, as well as test equipment used in integrators and manufacturers of various communications systems, such as cellular base stations, simulators, and point to point wireless radios; and waveguide to coaxial adapters for SATCOM and satellite internet gateway systems. In addition, the company offers cryogenic amplifiers for quantum computing, medical, RF imaging, research and development, space communications, accelerators, radiometry, and telephony applications; and cryogenic and non-cryogenic 4g/5g small cell subsystems for high-speed networks and airline Wi-Fi systems. Further, it provides custom assembly designs and non-recurring engineering services on a project-by-project basis, as well as IC packaging and lids products. The company serves aerospace, government, defense, commercial satellite, and wireless industries through sales representatives and distributors in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. AmpliTech Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Hauppauge, New York.
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