ATS vs HTGC Comparison

ATS Corp is engaged in planning, designing, building, commissioning and servicing automated manufacturing systems - including automation products and test solutions - for a broadly diversified base of customers. The company focuses in five key markets: life sciences, food & beverage, transportation, consumer products and energy. The Company's operations are reported as one operating segment, Automation Systems, which plans, allocates resources, builds capabilities and implements practices on a world-wide basis. The company has presence in Canada, United States, Germany, Italy, Other Europe, and Other.

Hercules Capital Inc is a specialty finance company focused on providing senior secured loans to high-growth, venture capital-backed, and institutional-backed companies in a variety of technology and life sciences industries. The company's primary business objectives are to increase its net income, net investment income, and net asset value (NAV) through its investments mainly in structured debt or senior secured debt instruments of venture capital-backed and institutional-backed companies across a variety of technology-related industries at attractive yields. It finances companies belonging to computer software and hardware, networking systems, semiconductors, medical devices, bio-pharmaceutical, and other related sectors.