Critical Review: Westaim (OTCMKTS:WEDXF) & Pulse Biosciences (NASDAQ:PLSE)

Volatility and Risk

Westaim has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pulse Biosciences has a beta of 1.78, suggesting that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Westaim and Pulse Biosciences’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Westaim	284.74%	7.76%	7.29%
Pulse Biosciences	N/A	-96.89%	-74.83%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

76.9% of Pulse Biosciences shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Westaim shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 71.5% of Pulse Biosciences shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Westaim and Pulse Biosciences”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Westaim	$8.63 million	53.18	$183.98 million	$0.29	12.35
Pulse Biosciences	$700,000.00	1,580.11	-$42.21 million	N/A	N/A

Westaim has higher revenue and earnings than Pulse Biosciences.

Summary

Westaim beats Pulse Biosciences on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Westaim

The Westaim Corporation is a private equity firm specializing in direct and indirect investments through acquisitions, joint ventures, secondary investments both direct and indirect, fund of fund investments, and other arrangements. For direct investments, the firm invests in early venture, mid venture, late venture, middle market, later stage, mature, emerging growth, PIPEs, and buyout transactions. For fund of fund investments, it seeks to invest in private equity funds, venture capital funds, and hedge funds. The firm seeks to provide long term capital to businesses operating in the global financial services industry. It typically acquires controlling interests in businesses. The firm seeks to acquire debt, equity, or derivative securities of both public and private companies. It invests with the objective of providing its shareholders with capital appreciation and real wealth preservation. The firm seeks to provide its portfolio companies with advisory services including, but not limited to, advice on capital allocation, financing strategy, performance measurement and merger and acquisition support. It also seeks to partner with like-minded providers of third party capital to help supplement the firm's own capital, when completing acquisitions. The firm generally seeks to hold its investments for seven to 15 years. The Westaim Corporation was founded in 1996 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

About Pulse Biosciences

Pulse Biosciences, Inc. operates as a novel bioelectric medicine company. The company offers CellFX System, a tunable, software-enabled, and console-based platform that delivers nano second duration pulses of electrical energy to non-thermally clear targeted cells while sparing adjacent non-cellular tissue to treat a various medical condition by using its Nano-Pulse Stimulation technology. The company was formerly known as Electroblate, Inc. and changed its name to Pulse Biosciences, Inc. in December 2015. Pulse Biosciences, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Hayward, California.