Reviewing Intellicheck (IDN) and Its Peers

Intellicheck (NASDAQ:IDN) is one of 953 public companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Intellicheck to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.

Volatility and Risk

Intellicheck has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intellicheck’s peers have a beta of 1.34, meaning that their average stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

42.8% of Intellicheck shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of Intellicheck shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Intellicheck and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Intellicheck	$24.11 million	$1.27 million	14.00
Intellicheck Competitors	$1.93 billion	$386.97 million	109.21

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Intellicheck and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Intellicheck	0	3	3	0	2.50
Intellicheck Competitors	5750	21538	44908	1497	2.57

Intellicheck presently has a consensus price target of $6.50, suggesting a potential upside of 209.52%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 29.01%. Given Intellicheck’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Intellicheck is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Intellicheck and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Intellicheck	13.03%	15.02%	12.27%
Intellicheck Competitors	-607.02%	22.93%	-8.85%

Summary

Intellicheck peers beat Intellicheck on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Intellicheck Company Profile

Intellicheck, Inc., a technology company, develops, integrates, and markets threat identification and identity authentication solutions for bank and retail fraud prevention, law enforcement threat identification, and mobile and handheld access control and security systems primarily in the United States. It provides identity systems products, including commercial identification products, such as Intellicheck Platform, an identity solution that checks whether an ID is valid, matches the ID to the person presenting it, and provides a risk score to determine the risk of doing business with that person; IDN-Portal that provides the ability to scan an ID using a mobile phone; IDN-Portal+ that uses a retail scanner to validate an ID, and get additional data for analytics and analysis; IDN-Direct that provides access to additional data and the ability to use the platform’s Risk Score capability to help with decision-making; and Intellicheck mobile app, which provides the ability to login and scan an ID. The company also offers State Aware Software solution, which provides or restricts information that is electronically scanned from an ID based on the electronic reading laws according to the state in which the ID is scanned; data collection devices that enable its software applications to be used on a variety of commercially available credit card terminals, PDAs, tablets, laptops, desktops, mobile phones, and point-of-sale terminals; and instant credit application kiosk software applications. It serves government, military, and commercial markets. The company was formerly known as Intellicheck Mobilisa, Inc. and changed its name to Intellicheck, Inc. in May 2017. Intellicheck, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.