Analyzing Intellicheck Mobilisa (NASDAQ:IDN) & Xperi (NYSE:XPER)

Intellicheck Mobilisa (NASDAQ:IDN) and Xperi (NYSE:XPER) are both small-cap services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

42.8% of Intellicheck Mobilisa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.3% of Xperi shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Intellicheck Mobilisa shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Xperi shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Intellicheck Mobilisa has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xperi has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Intellicheck Mobilisa and Xperi, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Intellicheck Mobilisa	0	2	0	1	2.67
Xperi	1	1	0	0	1.50

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Intellicheck Mobilisa and Xperi”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Intellicheck Mobilisa	$20.00 million	6.12	-$920,000.00	$0.01	606.00
Xperi	$493.69 million	0.58	-$14.01 million	$0.16	38.88

Intellicheck Mobilisa has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Xperi. Xperi is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intellicheck Mobilisa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Intellicheck Mobilisa and Xperi’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Intellicheck Mobilisa	0.95%	1.16%	0.89%
Xperi	1.53%	-0.22%	-0.14%

Summary

Intellicheck Mobilisa beats Xperi on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Intellicheck Mobilisa

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.

About Xperi

Xperi Holding Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a consumer and entertainment product/solutions licensing company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Product, and Intellectual Property Licensing. The company invents, develops, and delivers various technologies. It licenses audio, digital radio, imaging, edge-based machine learning, and multi-channel video user experience solutions to consumer electronics customers, automotive manufacturers, or supply chain partners. The company also provides licensing to multichannel video programming distributors, OTT video service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers, social media, and other new media companies in media industry; and memory, sensors, RF component, and foundry companies in semiconductor industry. It provides its technologies under the DTS, HD Radio, IMAX Enhanced, Invensas, TiVo, and Perceive brands. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California.