indie Semiconductor (NASDAQ:INDI – Get Free Report) and POET Technologies (NASDAQ:POET – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings and dividends.
Risk and Volatility
indie Semiconductor has a beta of 2.74, indicating that its share price is 174% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, POET Technologies has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares indie Semiconductor and POET Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| indie Semiconductor | $217.39 million | 4.42 | -$143.07 million | ($0.76) | -5.66 |
| POET Technologies | $1.08 million | 1,340.86 | -$62.96 million | ($0.56) | -19.59 |
POET Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than indie Semiconductor. POET Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than indie Semiconductor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares indie Semiconductor and POET Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| indie Semiconductor | -69.76% | -28.94% | -13.46% |
| POET Technologies | -5,857.02% | -38.88% | -21.84% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
67.7% of indie Semiconductor shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.0% of POET Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of indie Semiconductor shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of POET Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current recommendations for indie Semiconductor and POET Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| indie Semiconductor | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2.50 |
| POET Technologies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
indie Semiconductor currently has a consensus target price of $6.55, suggesting a potential upside of 52.33%. POET Technologies has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential downside of 27.07%. Given indie Semiconductor’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe indie Semiconductor is more favorable than POET Technologies.
Summary
indie Semiconductor beats POET Technologies on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About indie Semiconductor
indie Semiconductor, Inc. provides automotive semiconductors and software solutions for advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous vehicle, in-cabin, connected car, and electrification applications in the United States, South America, rest of North America, Greater China, South Korea, rest of the Asia Pacific, and Europe. It offers ultrasonic sensors for parking assist and systems; radar sensors for audio assistance and reverse information; front cameras for vehicle detection, collision avoidance, and sign reading; and side/inside cameras for blind spot and lane change assist, and driver behavior monitoring. The company also provides LiDAR for distance, speed, and obstacle detection, collision avoidance, and emergency brake system; and long range RADAR for audio assistance, obstacle detection, and ACC stop and go. In addition, it designs and manufactures photonic components on various technology platforms, including fiber Bragg gratings, low-noise lasers, athermal and tunable packaging, photonic integration, and low-noise and high-speed electronics. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California.
About POET Technologies
POET Technologies Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells discrete and integrated opto-electronic solutions in Canada, the United States, Singapore, and China. It offers integration solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer, a novel platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. It also develops photonic integrated components. The company serves the data center, telecommunications, Internet of things and industrial sensing, automotive LIDAR, optical coherence tomography for medical devices, and virtual reality systems markets. The company was formerly known as Opel Technologies Inc. and changed its name to POET Technologies Inc. in June 2013. POET Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 1972 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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