SmartKem (SMTK) & The Competition Head to Head Review

SmartKem (NASDAQ:SMTK) is one of 220 public companies in the “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare SmartKem to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for SmartKem and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SmartKem	1	0	0	0	1.00
SmartKem Competitors	3513	12392	25844	1004	2.57

As a group, “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” companies have a potential upside of 37.63%. Given SmartKem’s rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SmartKem has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares SmartKem and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SmartKem	-3,997.69%	-520.47%	-168.25%
SmartKem Competitors	-1,255.36%	-126.08%	-3.83%

Risk & Volatility

SmartKem has a beta of 4.18, suggesting that its stock price is 318% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SmartKem’s rivals have a beta of 2.81, suggesting that their average stock price is 181% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

54.7% of shares of all “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” companies are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of SmartKem shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of shares of all “Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment” 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.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
SmartKem	$700,000.00	-$10.51 million	-0.00
SmartKem Competitors	$7.39 billion	$2.55 billion	19.95

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

Summary

SmartKem rivals beat SmartKem on 11 of the 12 factors compared.

About SmartKem

SmartKem, Inc. is a materials technology company that develops organic semiconductor inks and related materials for use in printed and flexible electronics. Its technology is based on organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) materials designed to enable electronic circuits to be manufactured at relatively low temperatures using printing and other scalable production processes. The company’s product portfolio includes its truFLEX® family of organic semiconductor inks and associated materials. These products are intended for applications such as flexible and conformable displays, image and fingerprint sensors, radio-frequency identification (RFID), near-field communication (NFC), and other printed electronic devices.