Critical Analysis: Aixtron (OTCMKTS:AIXNY) and GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft (OTCMKTS:GEAGY)

Profitability

This table compares GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft and Aixtron’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft	-3.20%	-7.43%	-2.78%
Aixtron	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.3% of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.4% of Aixtron shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft and Aixtron”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft	$5.47 billion	1.34	-$191.04 million	($1.16)	-34.99
Aixtron	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Aixtron has lower revenue, but higher earnings than GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft.

Summary

Aixtron beats GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft on 4 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.

About GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft

GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft engages in the development and production of systems and components for the food processing industry worldwide. It operates in two segments, Business Area Equipment and Business Area Solutions. The Business Area Equipment segment offers separators, valves, pumps, homogenizers, and refrigeration compressors, as well as process technology solutions for food processing and packaging applications; and dairy equipment, feeding systems, and slurry engineering solutions. The Business Area Solutions segment provides process solutions for the dairy, food, beverage, pharma, and chemical industries. The company was formerly known as mg technologies ag and changed its name to GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft in 2005. The company has a strategic partnership with SAP SE. GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.

About Aixtron

AIXTRON SE is a provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry. The Company’s technology solutions are used by a range of customers across the world to build components for electronic and opto-electronic applications based on compound, silicon or organic semiconductor materials. Such components are used in fiber optic communication systems, wireless and mobile telephony applications, optical and electronic storage devices, computing, signaling and lighting, displays, as well as a range of other technologies. The Company’s business activities include developing, producing and installing equipment for the deposition of semiconductor and other complex materials, process engineering, consulting and training, including ongoing customer support and after-sales service. The Company supplies its customers with both production-scale material deposition systems and small scale systems for research and development (R&D) or small scale production.