Minim (FIEE) and Its Peers Critical Review

Minim (NASDAQ:FIEE) is one of 959 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Minim to related businesses based on the strength of its valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Minim and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Minim	-105.18%	-1,144.78%	-155.67%
Minim Competitors	-629.75%	30.37%	-8.95%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Minim and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Minim	1	0	0	0	1.00
Minim Competitors	5485	21118	44061	1449	2.58

As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 276.96%. Given Minim’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Minim has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Risk & Volatility

Minim has a beta of 1.81, suggesting that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Minim’s competitors have a beta of 1.19, suggesting that their average share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

56.6% of Minim shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 51.9% of Minim shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Minim and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Minim	$8.32 million	-$17.63 million	-0.74
Minim Competitors	$1.80 billion	$386.72 million	102.45

Minim’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Minim. Minim is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Minim competitors beat Minim on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Minim Company Profile

Minim, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, delivers intelligent networking products that connects homes and offices in North America and internationally. It offers hardware products, including cable modems, cable modem/routers, gateways, mobile broadband modems, wireless routers, routers, multimedia over coax adapters, mesh home networking devices, mesh systems, and other local area network products. The company also provides Minim mobile applications for end users to personalize and monitor their home and office network for speed testing, data usage tracking, security alerts, malware blocking, privacy settings, and parental controls; and Minim web application that enables technical support representatives of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and businesses to offer remote support with network insights. In addition, it offers Minim API suite and MinimOS for third-party hardware vendors, ISPs, and other partners to integrate with the Minim platform and functionality; to manage its account data; and to integrate with third-party router firmware. The company offers its products under the ZOOM, Motorola, and Minim brands. It sells its products through retailers and e-commerce channels. The company was formerly known as ZoomTelephonics, Inc. and changed its name to Minim, Inc. in June 2021. Minim, Inc. was incorporated in 1977 and is headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire.