ams-OSRAM (OTCMKTS:AMSSY) and Impinj (NASDAQ:PI) Financial Contrast

ams-OSRAM (OTCMKTS:AMSSY) and Impinj (NASDAQ:PI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for ams-OSRAM and Impinj, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ams-OSRAM	1	3	0	0	1.75
Impinj	1	3	5	0	2.44

Impinj has a consensus price target of $175.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.81%. Given Impinj’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Impinj is more favorable than ams-OSRAM.

Volatility & Risk

ams-OSRAM has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Impinj has a beta of 1.93, suggesting that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares ams-OSRAM and Impinj”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ams-OSRAM	$3.76 billion	0.45	-$147.08 million	($0.71)	-11.93
Impinj	$361.08 million	13.09	-$10.85 million	($0.92)	-168.62

Impinj has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ams-OSRAM. Impinj is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ams-OSRAM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares ams-OSRAM and Impinj’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ams-OSRAM	-3.76%	6.11%	0.96%
Impinj	-7.66%	5.67%	2.18%

Summary

Impinj beats ams-OSRAM on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ams-OSRAM

ams-OSRAM AG designs, manufactures, and sells LED and optical sensor solutions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Asia/Pacific. The company operates in Semiconductors and Lamps & Systems segments. The Semiconductors segment offers semiconductor-based products and solutions, such as high-performance LEDs, lasers, and optical sensors for automotive, consumer, and industrial and medical technology end markets. The Lamps & Systems segment provides lamps and lighting systems for the automotive, industrial, and medical end markets. The company was formerly known as ams AG and changed its name to ams-OSRAM AG in January 2022. ams-OSRAM AG is headquartered in Premstätten, Austria.

About Impinj

Impinj, Inc. operates a cloud connectivity platform in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Its platform wirelessly connects items and delivers data about the connected items to business and consumer applications. The company’s platform comprises endpoint ICs, a miniature radios-on-a-chip that attaches to a host item and includes a number to identify the item. Its platform also consists of systems products that consists of reader ICs, readers, and gateways to wirelessly provide power to and communicate bidirectionally with endpoint ICs on host items, as well as to read, write, authenticate, and engage the endpoint ICs on those items; and software and algorithms that enable its partners to solve enterprise business problems, such as retail self-checkout and loss prevention. The company primarily serves retail, supply chain and logistics, automotive, aviation, banking, datacenters, food, healthcare, industrial and manufacturing, linen and uniform tracking, sports, and travel industries through original equipment and device manufacturers, tag service bureaus, systems integrators, value-added resellers, independent software vendors, and other solution partners. Impinj, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.