Intellicheck (IDN) and Its Peers Financial Comparison

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Intellicheck and its peers, as reported 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 currently has a consensus target price of $6.50, indicating a potential upside of 209.52%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 29.01%. Given Intellicheck’s higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Intellicheck is more favorable than its peers.

Risk and Volatility

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

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%

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.

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

Summary

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

About Intellicheck

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.