Head to Head Comparison: Interlink Electronics (LINK) vs. Its Peers

Interlink Electronics (NASDAQ:LINK) is one of 377 public companies in the “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Interlink Electronics to similar businesses based on the strength of its profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Interlink Electronics and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Interlink Electronics	1	0	0	0	1.00
Interlink Electronics Competitors	2049	7614	10449	665	2.47

As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 41.19%. Given Interlink Electronics’ competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Interlink Electronics has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

43.2% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are owned by institutional investors. 77.5% of Interlink Electronics shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Interlink Electronics and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Interlink Electronics	-8.95%	-12.38%	-9.81%
Interlink Electronics Competitors	-158.14%	-25.87%	-6.85%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Interlink Electronics and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Interlink Electronics	$11.89 million	-$1.62 million	-44.29
Interlink Electronics Competitors	$4.00 billion	$172.92 million	4.89

Interlink Electronics’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Interlink Electronics. Interlink Electronics 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

Interlink Electronics competitors beat Interlink Electronics on 9 of the 12 factors compared.

About Interlink Electronics

Interlink Electronics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells force-sensing technologies that incorporate proprietary materials technology, firmware, and software into sensor-based products and custom sensor system solutions in the United States, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and internationally. The company's products include sensor components, subassemblies, modules, and products that support cursor control and novel three-dimensional user inputs. It also provides simple force and piezo sensors to multi-finger capable rugged trackpads; Force-Sensing Resistor sensors; force sensing linear potentiometers for menu navigation and control; and integrated mouse modules and pointing solutions to various electronic devices. In addition, the company offers human machine interface technology platforms for various applications, including vehicle entry, vehicle multi-media control interface, rugged touch controls, presence detection, collision detection, speed and torque controls, pressure mapping, biological monitoring, and others; and embedded firmware development and integration support services. It serves multi-national and start-up companies, technology design houses, original design manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, and universities in various markets, such as consumer electronics, automotive, industrial, and medical through direct sales employees, as well as outside sales representatives and distributors. Interlink Electronics, Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.