Financial Analysis: Ebang International (NASDAQ:EBON) vs. QuickLogic (NASDAQ:QUIK)

Ebang International (NASDAQ:EBON) and QuickLogic (NASDAQ:QUIK) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and risk.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Ebang International and QuickLogic”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ebang International	$4.86 million	5.54	-$36.77 million	N/A	N/A
QuickLogic	$21.89 million	4.91	-$260,000.00	($0.10)	-73.00

QuickLogic has higher revenue and earnings than Ebang International.

Risk & Volatility

Ebang International has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuickLogic has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Ebang International and QuickLogic, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ebang International	0	0	0	0	0.00
QuickLogic	0	0	3	1	3.25

QuickLogic has a consensus target price of $11.53, indicating a potential upside of 57.99%. Given QuickLogic’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe QuickLogic is more favorable than Ebang International.

Profitability

This table compares Ebang International and QuickLogic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ebang International	N/A	N/A	N/A
QuickLogic	-6.83%	-7.30%	-3.04%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

1.2% of Ebang International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.5% of QuickLogic shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.4% of Ebang International shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of QuickLogic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

QuickLogic beats Ebang International on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ebang International

Ebang International Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the research, design, and development of application-specific integrated circuit chips and manufacture of Bitcoin mining machines under the Ebit brand in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, the Bahamas, and internationally. It also provides mining machine hosting services; and engages in the development of proprietary cryptocurrency exchange platform. In addition, the company offers fiber-optic communication access devices, including multiprotocol label switching fiber-optic access network devices, multi-service access platform integrated business access devices, and wavelength-division multiplexing fiber-optic devices; and enterprise convergent terminal products, which consists gigabit passive optical network, Fiber to the Room products, passive optical network converged gateways, enterprise cloud gateway devices, industrial Internet of Things access devices, and business enterprise smart wireless access devices. It serves the blockchain and telecommunications industries. The company also operates a cross-border payment and foreign exchange platform. It sells its blockchain products directly, as well as through its website; and telecommunication products under the EBANG brand name primarily through supplier contracts. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.

About QuickLogic

QuickLogic Corporation operates as a fabless semiconductor company in the United States. The company offers embedded FPGA intellectual property, low power, multicore semiconductor system-on-chips, discrete FPGAs, and AI software; and end-to-end artificial intelligence/machine learning solution with accurate sensor algorithms using AI technology. It provides various platforms, such as software tools and eFPGA IP enables the adoption of AI, voice, and sensor processing across aerospace, and defense, consumer/industrial IOT, and consumer electronics markets. In addition, the company engages in the eFPGA IP Licensing business consisting of development and integration of eFPGA technology into custom semiconductor solutions. Further, the company offers silicon products, such as EOS, QuickAI, ArcticLink III, PolarPro 3, PolarPro II, PolarPro, and Eclipse II products; and PASIC 3 and QuickRAM, as well as programming hardware and design software services. The company markets and sells its products to defense industrial base contractors, U.S. government entities, system OEMs, and fabless semiconductor companies through a network of sales managers and distributors in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. It has a strategic partnership with YorChip to develop low-power unified chiplet interconnect express FPGA chiplets. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.