Head to Head Analysis: Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE:DBD) versus Innventure (NASDAQ:INV)

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE:DBD) and Innventure (NASDAQ:INV) are both technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Volatility & Risk

Diebold Nixdorf has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Innventure has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

97.0% of Diebold Nixdorf shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.0% of Innventure shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Diebold Nixdorf shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.3% of Innventure shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Diebold Nixdorf and Innventure”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Diebold Nixdorf	$3.87 billion	0.61	$94.60 million	$3.06	22.64
Innventure	$2.06 million	13.34	-$293.32 million	($1.54)	-0.21

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Diebold Nixdorf and Innventure, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Diebold Nixdorf	0	0	3	0	3.00
Innventure	2	0	0	0	1.00

Diebold Nixdorf presently has a consensus price target of $100.00, indicating a potential upside of 44.31%. Innventure has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,478.78%. Given Innventure’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Innventure is more favorable than Diebold Nixdorf.

Profitability

This table compares Diebold Nixdorf and Innventure’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Diebold Nixdorf	2.87%	21.16%	5.90%
Innventure	-3,022.42%	-21.34%	-17.20%

Summary

Diebold Nixdorf beats Innventure on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Diebold Nixdorf

Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated engages in the automating, digitizing, and transforming the way people bank and shop worldwide. It operates through two segments, Banking and Retail. The company offers cash recyclers and dispensers, intelligent deposit terminals, teller automation tools, and kiosk technologies, as well as physical security solutions; and front-end applications for consumer connection points and back-end platforms that manage channel transactions, operations and integration, and facilitate omnichannel transactions, endpoint monitoring, remote asset management, customer marketing, merchandise management, and analytics. It also provides banking product-related services comprising proactive monitoring and rapid resolution of incidents through remote service capabilities or an on-site visit; first- and second-line maintenance, preventive maintenance, and on-demand services; managed and outsourcing services, such as business processes, solution management, upgrades, and transaction processing; and cash management services. In addition, the company offers DN Vynamic software suite to simplify and enhance the consumer experience; modular and integrated point of sale and self-checkout terminals; printers, scales, and mobile scanners; and banknote and coin processing systems, as well as ordering kiosks. Additionally, it provides retail customer's product-related services, such as on-demand and professional services; maintenance and availability services; implementation services; managed mobility services; monitoring and advanced analytics; and store life-cycle management services. The company was formerly known as Diebold, Incorporated and changed its name to Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated in December 2016. Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in North Canton, Ohio.

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.