STAA vs APLD Comparison

Staar Surgical Co is a manufacturer of lenses. It designs, develops, manufactures, and sells implantable lenses for the eye and delivery systems used to deliver the lenses into the eye. The company offers two types of products: Implantable Collamer lenses (ICL), which are used in refractive surgery. The company generates almost all of its revenue from the sale of its ICL products. Geographically, the company generates key revenue from Foreign sales.

Applied Digital Corp is a U.S. based designer, developer, owner, and operator of large-scale, purpose-built data centers engineered to support high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and other accelerated-compute applications. It design, build, and operate high-performance, sustainably engineered data centers which it refer to as AI factories and deliver that capacity to investment-grade hyper scalers and other compute customers under long-term lease and hosting arrangements. The company has two segments Data Center Hosting Business, and HPC Hosting Business. The company generates majority of revenue from Data Center Hosting Business segment. Its solutions are Digital Infrastructure, and AI Factories.