Contrasting IQE (OTCMKTS:IQEPF) & Impinj (NASDAQ:PI)

Impinj (NASDAQ:PI) and IQE (OTCMKTS:IQEPF) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Impinj and IQE, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Impinj	1	3	7	0	2.55
IQE	0	0	0	0	0.00

Impinj currently has a consensus target price of $225.22, indicating a potential upside of 63.09%. Given Impinj’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Impinj is more favorable than IQE.

Volatility and Risk

Impinj has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IQE has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Impinj and IQE”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Impinj	$366.09 million	11.36	$40.84 million	($0.44)	-313.86
IQE	$150.84 million	0.73	-$48.79 million	N/A	N/A

Impinj has higher revenue and earnings than IQE.

Profitability

This table compares Impinj and IQE’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Impinj	-3.45%	8.15%	2.83%
IQE	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Impinj beats IQE on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Impinj

Impinj, Inc. operates a cloud connectivity platform in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Its platform wirelessly connects items and delivers data about the connected items to business and consumer applications. The company’s platform comprises endpoint ICs, a miniature radios-on-a-chip that attaches to a host item and includes a number to identify the item. Its platform also consists of systems products that consists of reader ICs, readers, and gateways to wirelessly provide power to and communicate bidirectionally with endpoint ICs on host items, as well as to read, write, authenticate, and engage the endpoint ICs on those items; and software and algorithms that enable its partners to solve enterprise business problems, such as retail self-checkout and loss prevention. The company primarily serves retail, supply chain and logistics, automotive, aviation, banking, datacenters, food, healthcare, industrial and manufacturing, linen and uniform tracking, sports, and travel industries through original equipment and device manufacturers, tag service bureaus, systems integrators, value-added resellers, independent software vendors, and other solution partners. Impinj, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

About IQE

IQE plc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells advanced semiconductor materials. It operates through three segments: Wireless, Photonics, and CMOS++. The company manufactures and sells compound semiconductor materials for the wireless market which includes radio frequency devices for wireless communications, and photonics market, that includes applications that transmit and sense visible and infrared lights, as well as advanced semiconductor materials related to silicon. It operates in the United States, rest of the Americas, France, Germany, Israel, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the People's Republic of China, Japan, Taiwan, and rest of the Asia-Pacific. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Cardiff, the United Kingdom.