Comparing Intellicheck (NYSE:IDN) & CCC Intelligent Solutions (NYSE:CCCS)

Intellicheck (NYSE:IDN) and CCC Intelligent Solutions (NYSE:CCCS) are both industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and dividends.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

42.8% of Intellicheck shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.8% of CCC Intelligent Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. 6.9% of Intellicheck shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of CCC Intelligent Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Intellicheck and CCC Intelligent Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Intellicheck	-3.37%	-1.59%	-1.23%
CCC Intelligent Solutions	5.02%	5.35%	3.23%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Intellicheck and CCC Intelligent Solutions, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Intellicheck	0	0	3	0	3.00
CCC Intelligent Solutions	1	2	3	0	2.33

Intellicheck currently has a consensus target price of $6.17, suggesting a potential upside of 28.47%. CCC Intelligent Solutions has a consensus target price of $11.75, suggesting a potential upside of 28.84%. Given CCC Intelligent Solutions’ higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CCC Intelligent Solutions is more favorable than Intellicheck.

Risk and Volatility

Intellicheck has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CCC Intelligent Solutions has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Intellicheck and CCC Intelligent Solutions”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Intellicheck	$20.66 million	4.65	-$1.98 million	($0.04)	-120.00
CCC Intelligent Solutions	$996.96 million	5.96	-$92.48 million	N/A	N/A

Intellicheck has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CCC Intelligent Solutions.

Summary

CCC Intelligent Solutions beats Intellicheck on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Intellicheck

Intellicheck, Inc., a technology company, provides on-demand digital identity validation solutions for KYC, fraud, and age verification needs in North America. The company offers solutions for digital and physical identities for financial services, fintech companies, BNPL providers, e-commerce and retail commerce businesses, law enforcement, and government agencies. It provides identity systems products, including commercial identification products, such as Intellicheck Platform, an identity solution that checks whether an ID is valid, matches the ID to the person presenting it, and provides a risk score to determine the risk of doing business with that person; IDN-Portal, an Intellicheck-branded identity validation application that provides the ability to scan an ID using a mobile phone; IDN-Portal+ that offers document validation, retail POS integration, additional data for analytics and analysis, and online validation, and other features; IDN-Direct that provides access to additional data and the ability to use the platform's Risk Score capability to help with decision-making; and Intellicheck mobile app, which provides the ability to login and scan an ID. The company also offers State Aware Software solution, which provides or restricts information that is electronically scanned from an ID based on the electronic reading laws according to the state in which the ID is scanned; data collection devices that enable its software applications to be used on a variety of commercially available credit card terminals, PDAs, tablets, laptops, desktops, mobile phones, and point-of-sale terminals; and instant credit application kiosk software applications. It serves government, military, and commercial markets. The company was formerly known as Intellicheck Mobilisa, Inc. and changed its name to Intellicheck, Inc. in May 2017. Intellicheck, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.

About CCC Intelligent Solutions

CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc., operates as a software as a service company for the property and casualty insurance economy in the United States and China. The company's cloud-based software as a service platform connects trading partners, facilitates commerce, and supports mission-critical, artificial intelligence enabled digital workflow across the insurance economy, including insurers, repairers, automakers, parts suppliers, lenders and more. It offers CCC insurance solutions, including CCC workflow, CCC estimating, CCC total loss, CCC casualty, CCC subrogation, and CCC claim handling; CCC repair solutions, such as CCC network management, CCC repair workflow, and CCC repair quality; CCC other ecosystem solutions, which includes CCC parts solutions, CCC automotive manufacturer solutions, CCC diagnostics service provider solutions, and CCC payments; and CCC international solutions. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.