Financial Review: Blaize (NASDAQ:BZAI) and Chipmos Technologies (NASDAQ:IMOS)

Chipmos Technologies (NASDAQ:IMOS) and Blaize (NASDAQ:BZAI) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Chipmos Technologies and Blaize”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Chipmos Technologies	$762.90 million	2.83	$17.55 million	$2.04	30.05
Blaize	$50.37 million	1.83	-$206.90 million	($0.68)	-0.93

Chipmos Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Blaize. Blaize is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chipmos Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

7.4% of Chipmos Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of Blaize shares are held by institutional investors. 22.7% of Chipmos Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 17.4% of Blaize shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Chipmos Technologies and Blaize, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Chipmos Technologies	0	1	0	0	2.00
Blaize	1	2	3	0	2.33

Blaize has a consensus target price of $3.38, indicating a potential upside of 431.75%. Given Blaize’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Blaize is more favorable than Chipmos Technologies.

Profitability

This table compares Chipmos Technologies and Blaize’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Chipmos Technologies	8.30%	9.22%	4.98%
Blaize	-160.85%	-306.51%	-106.16%

Volatility and Risk

Chipmos Technologies has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blaize has a beta of 0.08, suggesting that its stock price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Chipmos Technologies beats Blaize on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Chipmos Technologies

ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. engages in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of high-integration and high-precision integrated circuits, and related assembly and testing services in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and internationally. It operates through Testing; Assembly; Testing and Assembly for LCD, OLED and Other Display Panel Driver Semiconductors; Bumping; and Others segments. The company provides a range of back-end assembly and testing services, including engineering test, wafer probing, and final test of memory and logic/mixed-signal semiconductors, as well as leadframe-based and organic substrate-based package assembly services for memory and logic/mixed-signal semiconductors; and gold bumping, and testing and assembly services for LCD, OLED, and other panel display driver semiconductors. Its semiconductors are used in personal computers; office automation and consumer electronics; and communications equipment applications. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Hsinchu City, Taiwan.

About Blaize

Blaize® has created a transformative new compute solution that unites silicon and software to optimize AI from the edge to the core. We’re partnering with customers to transform their products so they can deliver better experiences and better lives.