Analyzing Adeia (NASDAQ:ADEA) and SKYX Platforms (NASDAQ:SKYX)

SKYX Platforms (NASDAQ:SKYX) and Adeia (NASDAQ:ADEA) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and risk.

Risk and Volatility

SKYX Platforms has a beta of -3565.99, meaning that its share price is 356,699% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adeia has a beta of 1.48, meaning that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares SKYX Platforms and Adeia’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SKYX Platforms	-35.79%	N/A	-52.05%
Adeia	26.50%	39.49%	16.61%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

11.8% of SKYX Platforms shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.4% of Adeia shares are held by institutional investors. 24.2% of SKYX Platforms shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Adeia shares are held by 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 SKYX Platforms and Adeia”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SKYX Platforms	$92.01 million	1.65	-$33.42 million	($0.29)	-3.90
Adeia	$443.39 million	6.65	$111.07 million	$1.08	24.74

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for SKYX Platforms and Adeia, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SKYX Platforms	1	1	3	1	2.67
Adeia	0	1	5	0	2.83

SKYX Platforms presently has a consensus target price of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 342.48%. Adeia has a consensus target price of $33.60, indicating a potential upside of 25.75%. Given SKYX Platforms’ higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe SKYX Platforms is more favorable than Adeia.

Summary

Adeia beats SKYX Platforms on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SKYX Platforms

SKYX Platforms Corp. provides a series of safe-smart platform technologies. The company’s first and second-generation technologies enable light fixtures, ceiling fans, and other electrically wired products to be installed and plugged into a ceiling’s electrical outlet box. It also provides universal power-plugs and receptacle products. In addition, it offers smart products, such as SkyHome App; sky smart universal power-plug and receptacle; sky-smart plug and play ceiling fans and lightings; and all-in-one smart sky platform. The company was formerly known as SQL Technologies Corp. and changed its name to SKYX Platforms Corp. in June 2022. SKYX Platforms Corp. was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Pompano Beach, Florida.

About Adeia

Adeia Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a media and semiconductor intellectual property licensing company in the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and internationally. The company licenses its patent portfolios across various markets, including multichannel video programming distributors comprising cable, satellite, and telecommunications television providers that aggregate and distribute linear content over networks, as well as television providers that aggregate and stream linear content over broadband networks; over-the-top video service providers and social media companies, such as subscription video-on-demand and advertising-supported streaming service providers, as well as content providers, networks, and media companies. It also licenses consumer electronics manufacturers, which includes producers of smart televisions, streaming media devices, video game consoles, mobile devices, content storage devices, and other connected media devices; semiconductors, including providers of sensors, radio frequency components, memory, and logic devices; and social media companies that allow users to stream and upload user-generated content. The company licenses its innovations under the Adeia brand name. Adeia Inc. was formerly known as Xperi Corporation and changed its name to Adeia Inc. in December 2019. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.