Yaskawa Electric (OTCMKTS:YASKY) & CPS Technologies (NASDAQ:CPSH) Head to Head Comparison

CPS Technologies (NASDAQ:CPSH) and Yaskawa Electric (OTCMKTS:YASKY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and valuation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

11.2% of CPS Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.4% of CPS Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares CPS Technologies and Yaskawa Electric’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CPS Technologies	-1.94%	-3.96%	-3.01%
Yaskawa Electric	6.86%	8.18%	4.83%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares CPS Technologies and Yaskawa Electric”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CPS Technologies	$21.12 million	4.72	-$3.13 million	($0.04)	-138.50
Yaskawa Electric	$3.53 billion	2.36	$376.12 million	$1.91	33.70

Yaskawa Electric has higher revenue and earnings than CPS Technologies. CPS Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yaskawa Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

CPS Technologies has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yaskawa Electric has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for CPS Technologies and Yaskawa Electric, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CPS Technologies	1	1	1	0	2.00
Yaskawa Electric	0	1	2	2	3.20

CPS Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.30%. Given CPS Technologies’ higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CPS Technologies is more favorable than Yaskawa Electric.

Summary

Yaskawa Electric beats CPS Technologies on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CPS Technologies

CPS Technologies Corporation provides advanced material solutions to the transportation, automotive, energy, computing/internet, telecommunication, aerospace, defense, and oil and gas markets in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company offers metal matrix composites such as baseplates for various applications, including motor controllers used in electric trains, subway cars, wind turbines, and hybrid and electric vehicles; hermetic packages for use in radar, satellite, and avionics applications; baseplates and housings used in modules built with wide band gap semiconductors; and lids and heat spreaders for use in internet switches and routers. It also assembles housings and packages that includes metal matrix composite components for hybrid circuits; and produces armor for naval and military applications. The company sells its products to microelectronics systems companies. The company was formerly known as Ceramics Process Systems Corporation and changed its name to CPS Technologies Corporation in March 2007. CPS Technologies Corporation was incorporated in 1984 and is based in Norton, Massachusetts.

About Yaskawa Electric

YASKAWA Electric Corporation engages in motion control, robotics, system engineering, and other businesses worldwide. It manufactures and sells various AC drives, including general purpose AC drives, specific purpose AC drives, AC Drive for systems, regenerative energy saving units, and PM motors for use in household appliances, such as air conditioners and refrigerators; social infrastructures comprising elevators, escalators, trains, cranes, fans, and pumps; and factories that manufacture printing machinery, textile machinery, rubber machinery, and other materials. The company also offers rotary servo motors, direct drive servo motors, linear motors/linear sliders, machine controllers, positioning sensor encoders, and servo amplifiers for use in industrial robots, semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, machine tools, flat panel display manufacturing equipment, and metal working machines; and arc and spot welding, handling/assembling, collaborative, biomedical, palletizing, press handling, sealing/cutting/laser machining, deburring, painting, glass substrates transfer, and semiconductor wafer transfer robots for use in semiconductor wafer conveyance, arc welding, spot welding, handling, assembly, and palletizing applications. In addition, it provides industrial system electrical products, such as medium-voltage AC drives, system use AC drives, and system controllers for use in iron and steel systems, water and wastewater treatment, crane, and paper-making/film/port cargo handling/fiber/printing applications. Further, the company offers equipment for energy saving and creation comprising PV inverters, systems for large wind turbines, control equipment for small-scale power generation, and motor drive systems for use in photovoltaic power generation, large-scale wind power generation, small-scale power generation, and electric vehicles. The company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Kitakyushu, Japan.