Both in Materials Manufacturing

Insteel Industries vs Lightwave Logic

Over the past year IIIN returned −9.0% and LWLG returned +3.7%; their daily moves had a correlation of 0.12.

IIIN −9.0% LWLG +3.7%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricIIINLWLG
Price$28.45$4.75
Market cap$550.6M$732.3M
Today−1.76%+3.71%
1 month−2.0%−12.7%
6 months+7.8%−70.8%
Year to date−10.2%+46.6%
1 year−8.6%+0.4%
Revenue growth (YoY)+9.9%+27.9%
Gross margin10.2%100.0%
Net margin4.6%−20194.2%
P/E (TTM)15.1×—
Price / sales0.8×2,926.2×
Net cash$22.9M$95.9M
Dividend yield0.42%—
Volatility (60d)27.2%78.3%
Short % of float4.5%18.8%
Next earnings——

Shading marks the stronger figure where one clearly exists (lower is better for valuation and volatility).