Analyzing Inception Growth Acquisition (NASDAQ:IGTA) and UBE (OTCMKTS:UBEOY)

Inception Growth Acquisition (NASDAQ:IGTA) and UBE (OTCMKTS:UBEOY) are both small-cap financial services 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.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

49.0% of Inception Growth Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Inception Growth Acquisition 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Inception Growth Acquisition and UBE, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Inception Growth Acquisition	0	1	0	0	2.00
UBE	0	0	0	0	0.00

Inception Growth Acquisition currently has a consensus target price of $26.00, indicating a potential upside of 103.92%. Given Inception Growth Acquisition’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Inception Growth Acquisition is more favorable than UBE.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Inception Growth Acquisition and UBE”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Inception Growth Acquisition	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
UBE	$5.84 billion	0.28	$218.05 million	$1.10	7.11

UBE has higher revenue and earnings than Inception Growth Acquisition.

Volatility & Risk

Inception Growth Acquisition has a beta of 0.09, indicating that its stock price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UBE has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Inception Growth Acquisition and UBE’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Inception Growth Acquisition	N/A	N/A	N/A
UBE	3.73%	7.60%	3.66%

Summary

UBE beats Inception Growth Acquisition on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Inception Growth Acquisition

Inception Growth Acquisition Limited does not have significant operations. The company focuses on effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. It intends to focus on sourcing opportunities in the technology, media and telecom, sports and entertainment, and non-gambling game sectors. The company was incorporated in 2021 and is based in New York, New York.

About UBE

Ube Industries, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the chemicals, construction materials, and machinery businesses in Japan, Asia, Europe, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Chemicals, Construction Materials, Machinery, and Others. It offers synthetic rubber, engineering plastics, caprolactam, industrial chemicals, liquefied gas, polyethylene, ammonium sulfate, polyimide, battery materials, separation membranes, fine chemicals, ceramics, high purity chemicals, semiconductor gas products, products for polyurethane resins, aerospace materials, inorganic fiber, and high temperature paints. The company also provides contract manufacturing services for APIs and intermediates; aromatic SF5 compounds; FLUOLEAD, a novel nucleophilic fluorinating agent; and drug discovery and pipeline services. In addition, it offers cement products, ready mixed concrete, soil stabilizing cement, building materials, limestone, calcia and magnesia, specialty inorganic materials, and resource recycling, as well as imports and sells coal. Further, the company is involved in the supply of electric power. Additionally, it provides die-casting and injection molding machines, and extrusion presses; and UBE vertical mills, kilins, furnaces, dryers, water screening equipment, storage and transportation systems, bridges and steel structures, and steel billets and casting. The company also manufactures and sells nylon, plastic films, polypropylene molded products, fibers, fiber-reinforced plastics, electronic and information materials, magnesia clinker, quicklime, slaked lime, and cast iron; and offers coastal shipping, port transportation, containers, collection and transport of industrial waste, trading, and engineering services. In addition, it engages in the purchase, sale, and leasing of real estate properties. Ube Industries, Ltd. was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.