Iveda Solutions (NASDAQ:IVDA – Get Free Report) and SMC (OTCMKTS:SMCAY – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
4.3% of Iveda Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.0% of SMC shares are held by institutional investors. 12.2% of Iveda Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Iveda Solutions and SMC’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Iveda Solutions | -69.24% | -63.92% | -46.83% |
| SMC | 21.94% | 9.40% | 8.53% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Iveda Solutions and SMC, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Iveda Solutions | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| SMC | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.33 |
Volatility & Risk
Iveda Solutions has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SMC has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Iveda Solutions and SMC”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Iveda Solutions | $5.28 million | 0.57 | -$3.20 million | ($0.54) | -0.45 |
| SMC | $5.60 billion | 4.52 | $1.10 billion | $1.03 | 19.21 |
SMC has higher revenue and earnings than Iveda Solutions. Iveda Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SMC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SMC beats Iveda Solutions on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Iveda Solutions
Iveda Solutions, Inc. provides artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation technologies in the United States and Taiwan. The company offers IvedaAI, a deep-learning video analytics software and Sentir Video, a video surveillance solution for various kinds of applications. It also provides Cerebro IoT Platform, a software technology platform that integrates a multitude of disparate systems for central access and management of applications, subsystems, and devices, and IvedaSPS, a smart power solution utilizing in Cerebro IoT platform, and IvedaXpress, a system for pre-existing IP cameras and AI analytics for servers and IT department. In addition, the company offers Iveda Smart UVC, an AI vent for irradiating UV light and Iveda drone to perform certain functions from an aerial view. Further, it offers Utilus smart pole solution that consists of power and Internet with a communication network for the access and management of sensors and devices, as well as provides utility cabin, IoT sensors and devices and LAN switch products. The company serves airports, commercial buildings, government customers, data centers, shopping centers, hotels, banks, and safe city projects. Iveda Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Mesa, Arizona.
About SMC
SMC Corporation manufactures, processes, and sells automatic control equipment, sintered filters, and various types of filtration equipment worldwide. The company offers air management system, directional control valves, air cylinders, rotatory actuators/air grippers, electric actuators/cylinders, fitting and tubing, and modular F.R.L./pressure control equipment, as well as vacuum, air preparation, and lubrication equipment. It also provides flow control equipment, speed controllers, silencers/exhaust/blow guns/pressure gauges, switches/sensors/controllers, static neutralization equipment, and industrial device communication equipment/wireless system. In addition, the company offers process valves, chemical liquid valves/fittings and needle valves/tubing, process pumps, temperature control equipment, and process gas equipment, as well as high vacuum equipment, industrial filters/sintered metal elements, and pneumatic instrumentation and hydraulic equipment. The company was formerly known as Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Co., Ltd. and changed its name to SMC Corporation in April 1986. SMC Corporation was incorporated in 1959 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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