Analyzing Identiv (INVE) & Its Competitors

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

65.2% of Identiv shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.5% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are held by institutional investors. 3.6% of Identiv shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.1% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are held 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Identiv and its competitors, 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	7594	10411	658	2.47

Identiv presently has a consensus target price of $3.40, suggesting a potential upside of 27.34%. As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 36.45%. Given Identiv’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Identiv has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares Identiv and its competitors’ 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%	-25.69%	-6.84%

Risk and Volatility

Identiv has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Identiv’s competitors have a beta of -0.31, indicating that their average share price is 131% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Identiv	$24.27 million	-$18.00 million	-4.05
Identiv Competitors	$115.42 billion	$167.45 million	5.95

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

Summary

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

About Identiv

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.