Head to Head Survey: AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP) & AEye (NASDAQ:LIDR)

AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP) and AEye (NASDAQ:LIDR) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for AppYea and AEye, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AppYea	0	0	0	0	0.00
AEye	1	0	2	0	2.33

AEye has a consensus price target of $4.75, suggesting a potential upside of 163.89%. Given AEye’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe AEye is more favorable than AppYea.

Profitability

This table compares AppYea and AEye’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AppYea	-188,712.48%	-514.31%	-149.78%
AEye	-12,698.89%	-49.42%	-42.66%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares AppYea and AEye”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AppYea	$10,000.00	814.80	-$15.10 million	($0.03)	-0.41
AEye	$230,000.00	362.43	-$33.96 million	($1.13)	-1.59

AppYea has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AEye. AEye is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AppYea, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

21.6% of AEye shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of AppYea shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of AEye shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

AppYea has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AEye has a beta of 2.75, meaning that its share price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

AEye beats AppYea on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AppYea

AppYea, Inc., a digital health company, develops wearable monitoring solutions to treat sleep apnea and snoring. It develops AppySleep app, a wristband that monitors physiological parameters during sleep; AppySleep, a biofeedback snoring treatment wristband; AppySleep LAB, a smartphone medical application that monitors breathing patterns in the sleep and identify sleep arena episode without direct contact to the user; and AppySleep PRO a wristband for the treatment of sleep arena using biofeedback in combination with AppySleep LAB app. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Gan Yavne, Israel.

About AEye

AEye, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides lidar systems for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver-assistance systems, and robotic vision applications in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It offers 4Sight intelligent sensing lidar platform, including 4Sight at Design, Triggered 4Sight, Responsive 4Sight, and Predictive 4Sight; and 4Sight for automotive and industrial market. The company was formerly known as CF Finance Acquisition Corp. III and changed its name to AEye, Inc. in August 2021. AEye, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Dublin, California.