Both in Materials Manufacturing

Lightwave Logic vs Insteel Industries

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

LWLG +3.7% IIIN −9.0%Growth of $1, one year, split-adjusted
MetricLWLGIIIN
Price$4.75$28.45
Market cap$732.3M$550.6M
Today+3.71%−1.76%
1 month−12.7%−2.0%
6 months−70.8%+7.8%
Year to date+46.6%−10.2%
1 year+0.4%−8.6%
Revenue growth (YoY)+27.9%+9.9%
Gross margin100.0%10.2%
Net margin−20194.2%4.6%
P/E (TTM)—15.1×
Price / sales2,926.2×0.8×
Net cash$95.9M$22.9M
Dividend yield—0.42%
Volatility (60d)78.3%27.2%
Short % of float18.8%4.5%
Next earnings——

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