Pintec Technology (NASDAQ:PT) and Innventure (NASDAQ:INV) Critical Survey

Innventure (NASDAQ:INV) and Pintec Technology (NASDAQ:PT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Innventure and Pintec Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Innventure	1	0	0	1	2.50
Pintec Technology	1	0	0	0	1.00

Innventure currently has a consensus price target of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 151.57%. Given Innventure’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Innventure is more favorable than Pintec Technology.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Innventure and Pintec Technology”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innventure	$1.69 million	127.47	-$78.19 million	($1.51)	-2.11
Pintec Technology	$35.55 million	0.42	-$2.12 million	N/A	N/A

Pintec Technology has higher revenue and earnings than Innventure.

Profitability

This table compares Innventure and Pintec Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Innventure	-18,877.40%	-29.39%	-23.32%
Pintec Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A

Volatility & Risk

Innventure has a beta of 0.09, meaning that its share price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pintec Technology has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

56.0% of Innventure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pintec Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.6% of Innventure shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Pintec Technology shares 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.

About Innventure

Innventure Inc. founds, funds and operates companies with a focus on transformative, sustainable technology solutions acquired or licensed from multinational corporations. Innventure Inc., formerly known as Learn CW Investment Corporation, is based in ORLANDO, Fla.

About Pintec Technology

Pintec Technology Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of technology-enabled financial and digital services to the ecosystem of MSMEs and SMEs in the People’s Republic of China. The company connects business partners and financial partners on its open platform and enables them to provide financial services to end users. It provides point-of-sale financing solutions to its business partners on their platforms or on its own platform under the Dumiao brand; and business installment loan solutions to its business partners on their platforms or on its own platform. The company also offers wealth management solutions, including a fund distribution solution that enables partners to offer and distribute mutual fund products to their customers, either under its Hongdian brand or as a white label solution; and a robo-advisory solution under the Polaris brand which enables its financial and business partners to provide robo-advisory services to their customers. In addition, it provides international installment loan solutions; Myfin, an insurance solution, that enables its partners to offer and distribute insurance products to its users; value added tools to business and financial partners for deploying its solutions, monitor and evaluate performance, and scale their business; digital marketing tools to target users, implement intelligent digital marketing activities, and increase marketing efficiencies and effectiveness; and real time monitoring tools that offer comprehensive and visualized performance monitoring interface. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.