Head to Head Survey: INVE Technologies (INVE) versus Its Peers

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

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares INVE Technologies and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
INVE Technologies	$21.48 million	-$18.00 million	-3.89
INVE Technologies Competitors	$4.13 billion	$172.92 million	4.71

INVE Technologies’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than INVE Technologies. INVE Technologies 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 Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations for INVE Technologies and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
INVE Technologies	1	2	0	0	1.67
INVE Technologies Competitors	2048	7603	10433	662	2.47

INVE Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $3.40, suggesting a potential upside of 32.55%. As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 41.97%. Given INVE Technologies’ peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe INVE Technologies has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
INVE Technologies	-62.93%	-11.02%	-10.34%
INVE Technologies Competitors	-158.11%	-25.88%	-6.86%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

65.2% of INVE Technologies 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 INVE Technologies 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

INVE Technologies has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, INVE Technologies’ peers have a beta of -0.30, indicating that their average share price is 130% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

INVE Technologies peers beat INVE Technologies on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About INVE Technologies

INVE Technologies is 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.