Analyzing Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) and IGO (OTCMKTS:IGOI)

IGO (OTCMKTS:IGOI) and Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares IGO and Seagate Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
IGO	N/A	N/A	N/A
Seagate Technology	26.11%	369.98%	37.58%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares IGO and Seagate Technology”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
IGO	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Seagate Technology	$12.20 billion	15.27	$3.18 billion	$13.88	59.20

Seagate Technology has higher revenue and earnings than IGO.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for IGO and Seagate Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
IGO	0	0	0	0	0.00
Seagate Technology	0	4	22	1	2.89

Seagate Technology has a consensus price target of $986.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.00%. Given Seagate Technology’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Seagate Technology is more favorable than IGO.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

92.9% of Seagate Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of IGO shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Seagate Technology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Seagate Technology beats IGO on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About IGO

iGo, Inc. engages in the provision of metallic blade products for the meat cutting, food cutting and wood cutting industries to the global market. The company was founded on May 4, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

About Seagate Technology

Seagate Technology Holdings plc provides data storage technology and solutions in Singapore, the United States, the Netherlands, and internationally. It provides mass capacity storage products, including enterprise nearline hard disk drives (HDDs), enterprise nearline solid state drives (SSDs), enterprise nearline systems, video and image HDDs, and network-attached storage drives. The company also offers legacy applications comprising Mission Critical HDDs and SSDs; external storage solutions under the Seagate Ultra Touch, One Touch, and Expansion product lines, as well as under the LaCie brand name; desktop drives; notebook drives, DVR HDDs, and gaming SSDs. In addition, it provides Lyve edge-to-cloud mass capacity platform. The company sells its products primarily to OEMs, distributors, and retailers. Seagate Technology Holdings plc was founded in 1978 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.