Reviewing Lightwave Logic (LWLG) & Its Rivals

Lightwave Logic (NASDAQ:LWLG) is one of 377 public companies in the “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Lightwave Logic to related companies based on the strength of its risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership and earnings.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

27.0% of Lightwave Logic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.2% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Lightwave Logic shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are held by company 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Lightwave Logic and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lightwave Logic	1	1	1	0	2.00
Lightwave Logic Competitors	2049	7614	10449	665	2.47

Lightwave Logic presently has a consensus price target of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 129.36%. As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 41.17%. Given Lightwave Logic’s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Lightwave Logic is more favorable than its competitors.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Lightwave Logic and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lightwave Logic	$240,000.00	-$20.31 million	-27.25
Lightwave Logic Competitors	$4.00 billion	$172.92 million	4.89

Lightwave Logic’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Lightwave Logic. Lightwave Logic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Volatility & Risk

Lightwave Logic has a beta of 2.42, suggesting that its stock price is 142% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lightwave Logic’s competitors have a beta of -0.29, suggesting that their average stock price is 129% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Lightwave Logic and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lightwave Logic	-9,143.60%	-30.34%	-28.76%
Lightwave Logic Competitors	-158.14%	-25.87%	-6.85%

Summary

Lightwave Logic competitors beat Lightwave Logic on 11 of the 13 factors compared.

Lightwave Logic Company Profile

Lightwave Logic, Inc. focuses on the development of photonic devices and electro-optical polymer materials systems for fiber-optic data communications, telecommunications, and optical computing markets in the United States. The company is involved in the designing and synthesizing of organic chromophores for use in its electro-optic polymer systems and photonic device designs. It also offers electro-optic modulators, which converts data from electric signals to optical signals for transmission over fiber-optic cables; and polymer photonic integrated circuits, a photonic device, which integrates various photonic functions on a single chip. In addition, the company provides the ridge waveguide modulator, a modulator that fabricates the waveguide within a layer of its electro-optic polymer system. It focuses on selling its products to electro-optic device manufacturers, contract manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, foundries, packaging and assembly manufacturers, etc.; and semiconductor companies, optical network companies, Web 2.0/3.0 media companies, computing companies, telecommunications companies, aerospace companies, automotive companies, and government agencies and defense entities. The company was formerly known as Third-order Nanotechnologies, Inc. and changed its name to Lightwave Logic, Inc. in March 2008. Lightwave Logic, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.