Reviewing Seiko Epson (OTCMKTS:SEKEY) and Innventure (NASDAQ:INV)

Innventure (NASDAQ:INV) and Seiko Epson (OTCMKTS:SEKEY) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares Innventure and Seiko Epson’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Innventure	-3,022.42%	-21.34%	-17.20%
Seiko Epson	1.71%	2.97%	1.66%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Innventure and Seiko Epson, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Innventure	2	0	0	0	1.00
Seiko Epson	0	1	0	0	2.00

Innventure currently has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 2,213.74%. Given Innventure’s higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Innventure is more favorable than Seiko Epson.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

56.0% of Innventure shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.3% of Innventure shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Innventure and Seiko Epson”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innventure	$2.06 million	9.10	-$293.32 million	($1.54)	-0.14
Seiko Epson	$9.39 billion	0.78	$113.84 million	$0.26	37.77

Seiko Epson has higher revenue and earnings than Innventure. Innventure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seiko Epson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Innventure has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seiko Epson has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Seiko Epson beats Innventure on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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 Seiko Epson

Seiko Epson Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, sells, and provides services for products in the printing solutions, visual communications, manufacturing-related and wearables, and other businesses. It operates through three segments: Printing Solutions, Visual Communications, and Manufacturing-related and Wearables segments. The Printing Solutions segment offers home and office inkjet printers, serial impact dot matrix printers, page printers, color image scanners, dry process office papermaking systems, commercial and industrial inkjet printers, inkjet printheads, printers for use in POS systems, label printers, printer consumables, and others. The Visual Communications segment provides 3LCD projectors for business, education, the home, and event; smart glasses; and others. The Manufacturing-related and Wearables segment offers wristwatches, watch movements, and others; factory automation products, industrial robots, compact injection molders, and other production systems; and crystal units, crystal oscillators, quartz sensors, and others for consumer, automotive, and industrial equipment applications. This segment also provides CMOS LSIs and other chips primarily for consumer electronics and automotive applications; and metal powders for use as raw materials in the production of electronic components, etc., as well as value-added surface finishing in a range of industrial fields. The company also sells PCs, etc. It has operations in Japan, the Philippines, the United States, Indonesia, China, and internationally. Seiko Epson Corporation was incorporated in 1942 and is headquartered in Suwa, Japan.