Innventure (NASDAQ:INV) and Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) Critical Survey

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

56.0% of Innventure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of Seagate Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 14.3% of Innventure shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Seagate Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility & Risk

Innventure has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seagate Technology has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Innventure and Seagate Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Innventure	1	0	0	0	1.00
Seagate Technology	0	4	22	1	2.89

Innventure presently has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential upside of 736.68%. Seagate Technology has a consensus target price of $986.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.81%. Given Innventure’s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Innventure is more favorable than Seagate Technology.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Innventure and Seagate Technology”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Innventure	$2.06 million	24.55	-$293.32 million	($1.54)	-0.39
Seagate Technology	$12.20 billion	16.01	$3.18 billion	$13.88	61.87

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

Profitability

This table compares Innventure and Seagate Technology’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%
Seagate Technology	26.11%	369.98%	37.58%

Summary

Seagate Technology beats Innventure on 12 of the 15 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 Seagate Technology

Seagate Technology Holdings plc provides data storage technology and solutions in Singapore, the United States, the Netherlands, and internationally. It provides mass capacity storage products, including enterprise nearline hard disk drives (HDDs), enterprise nearline solid state drives (SSDs), enterprise nearline systems, video and image HDDs, and network-attached storage drives. The company also offers legacy applications comprising Mission Critical HDDs and SSDs; external storage solutions under the Seagate Ultra Touch, One Touch, and Expansion product lines, as well as under the LaCie brand name; desktop drives; notebook drives, DVR HDDs, and gaming SSDs. In addition, it provides Lyve edge-to-cloud mass capacity platform. The company sells its products primarily to OEMs, distributors, and retailers. Seagate Technology Holdings plc was founded in 1978 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.