Critical Survey: Intelligent Group (NASDAQ:INTJ) vs. StepStone Group (NASDAQ:STEP)

StepStone Group (NASDAQ:STEP) and Intelligent Group (NASDAQ:INTJ) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares StepStone Group and Intelligent Group”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
StepStone Group	$1.17 billion	6.40	-$179.56 million	($8.00)	-7.95
Intelligent Group	$18.14 million	0.41	-$50,000.00	N/A	N/A

Intelligent Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than StepStone Group.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for StepStone Group and Intelligent Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
StepStone Group	1	3	4	1	2.56
Intelligent Group	1	0	0	0	1.00

StepStone Group currently has a consensus target price of $74.57, indicating a potential upside of 17.29%. Given StepStone Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe StepStone Group is more favorable than Intelligent Group.

Volatility & Risk

StepStone Group has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intelligent Group has a beta of 2.86, indicating that its stock price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

55.5% of StepStone Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.5% of StepStone Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares StepStone Group and Intelligent Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
StepStone Group	-40.06%	21.53%	5.22%
Intelligent Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

StepStone Group beats Intelligent Group on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About StepStone Group

StepStone Group Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct, fund of funds, secondary direct, and secondary indirect investments. For direct investment, it seeks to invest in private debt, venture debt, incubation, mezzanine, distressed/vulture, seed/startup, early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, later stage, turnaround, growth capital, industry consolidation, recapitalization, buyout investments in mature and middle market companies. It prefers to invest in natural resources, technology, healthcare, services, materials, manufacturing, consumer durables, apparel, hotels, restaurants and leisure, media, retailing, power, utilities consumer staples, financials, telecommunication services, clean energy/renewables, transport, social, natural capital, infrastructure, corporate, real estate, credit and real asset. The firm invests globally with a focus on United States, North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, New Zealand, China, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia region. The firm invests between 5% and 40% in emerging markets. For fund of fund investment, it seeks to invest in private equity funds, venture capital funds, Special situation funds, Real estate funds, Infrastructure funds, mezzanine funds, and turnaround/distressed funds. It considers investments in both domestic and international funds. It also seeks to make co-investments and follow-on investments and considers partial interests in funds. StepStone Group Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices across North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

About Intelligent Group

Intelligent Group Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides financial public relations services in the Hong Kong. The company offers financial PR services, such as creating multi-stakeholder communications programs, arranging press conferences and interviews, participating in the preparation of news releases and shareholders' meetings, monitoring news publications, identifying shareholders, targeting potential investors, organizing corporate events, and implementing crisis management policies and procedures. It provides training to its clients on public relations tactics and practices. It serves listing applicants and listed companies, as well as private companies, investors, and international investment banks. Intelligent Group Limited was founded in 2016 and is based in Admiralty, Hong Kong.