Critical Contrast: Innovative Solutions and Support (NASDAQ:ISSC) vs. Earlyworks (NASDAQ:ELWS)

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Earlyworks and Innovative Solutions and Support”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Earlyworks	$179.36 million	0.05	-$2.13 million	N/A	N/A
Innovative Solutions and Support	$44.81 million	2.93	$6.03 million	$0.37	20.27

Innovative Solutions and Support has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Earlyworks.

Profitability

This table compares Earlyworks and Innovative Solutions and Support’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Earlyworks	N/A	N/A	N/A
Innovative Solutions and Support	14.40%	16.62%	11.48%

Risk and Volatility

Earlyworks has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innovative Solutions and Support has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.5% of Earlyworks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.5% of Innovative Solutions and Support shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of Innovative Solutions and Support shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Innovative Solutions and Support beats Earlyworks on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Earlyworks

Earlyworks Co., Ltd operates as a blockchain-based technology company in Japan. The company builds products, deliver services, and develop solutions based on its proprietary Grid Ledger System to leverage blockchain technology in various business settings, including advertisement tracking, online visitor management, and sales of non-fungible tokens. It also provides software and system development services; consulting and solution services; blockchain system solution planning; and proposal, design, and development planning services. The company serves the information technology, shipping, real estate, entertainment, cosmetics, and chemical products sectors. Earlyworks Co., Ltd was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

About Innovative Solutions and Support

Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc., a systems integrator, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and services flight guidance, autothrottles, and cockpit display systems in the United States and internationally. It offers flat panel display systems that replicate the display of analog or digital displays on one screen and replace existing displays in legacy aircraft, as well as used for security monitoring on-board aircraft and as tactical workstations on military aircraft; and flight deck management system, a navigation and performance computer that upgrade for commercial air transport aircraft. The company also provides integrated standby units, which incorporate the measurement and display of attitude, altitude, airspeed, and navigation data into a single backup navigation instrument for military, commercial air transport, and corporate/general aviation applications. In addition, it offers digital air data computers that calculate various air data parameters, such as altitude, airspeed, vertical speed, angle of attack, and other information; integrated air data computers and display units, which calculate and convey air data information; altitude displays that convey aircraft altitude measurements; airspeed displays that convey various airspeed measurements; and altitude alerters. Further, the company offers the engine and fuel displays that convey information related to fuel and oil levels, and engine activity, including oil and hydraulic pressure and temperature; integrated global navigation systems; ThrustSense, a full regime autothrottle; and utility management systems. It serves commercial air transport carriers and corporate/general aviation companies, the Department of Defense and its commercial contractors, aircraft operators, aircraft modification centers, government agencies, and foreign militaries, as well as original equipment manufacturers. Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc. was incorporated in 1988 and is based in Exton, Pennsylvania.