Financial Review: Identiv (INVE) vs. The Competition

Identiv (NASDAQ:INVE) is one of 377 public companies in the “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Identiv to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability and risk.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

65.2% of Identiv shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.3% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Identiv shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Identiv has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Identiv’s rivals have a beta of -0.31, suggesting that their average stock price is 131% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Identiv and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Identiv	1	2	0	0	1.67
Identiv Competitors	2047	7589	10397	654	2.47

Identiv presently has a consensus price target of $3.40, suggesting a potential upside of 25.46%. As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 36.00%. Given Identiv’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Identiv has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares Identiv and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Identiv	-62.93%	-11.02%	-10.34%
Identiv Competitors	-158.15%	-25.72%	-6.85%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Identiv and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Identiv	$21.48 million	-$18.00 million	-4.11
Identiv Competitors	$4.00 billion	$166.60 million	5.61

Identiv’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Identiv. Identiv is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Identiv rivals beat Identiv on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Identiv Company Profile

Identiv, Inc., a security technology company, that provides secure identification and physical security solutions that secure things, data, and physical places worldwide. It operates in two segments, Identity and Premises. The Identity segment offers products and solutions that enables secure access to information serving the logical access and cyber security markets, as well as protecting connected objects and information using radio-frequency identification embedded security. The Premises segment provides solutions for premises security market, such as access control, video surveillance, analytics, audio, access readers, and identities to government facilities, schools, utilities, hospitals, stores, and apartment buildings. The company sells its products through dealers, systems integrators, value added resellers, and resellers. The company was formerly known as Identive Group, Inc. and changed its name to Identiv, Inc. in May 2014. Identiv, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.