Head-To-Head Review: Bigcommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC) and Intellicheck Mobilisa (NASDAQ:IDN)

Intellicheck Mobilisa (NASDAQ:IDN) and Bigcommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC) are both small-cap services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

42.8% of Intellicheck Mobilisa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.2% of Bigcommerce shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Intellicheck Mobilisa shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Bigcommerce shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility & Risk

Intellicheck Mobilisa has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bigcommerce has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Intellicheck Mobilisa and Bigcommerce’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Intellicheck Mobilisa	0.95%	1.16%	0.89%
Bigcommerce	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Intellicheck Mobilisa and Bigcommerce, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Intellicheck Mobilisa	0	1	0	2	3.33
Bigcommerce	0	0	1	0	3.00

Bigcommerce has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 170.94%. Given Bigcommerce’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bigcommerce is more favorable than Intellicheck Mobilisa.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Intellicheck Mobilisa and Bigcommerce”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Intellicheck Mobilisa	$20.00 million	6.43	-$920,000.00	$0.01	637.00
Bigcommerce	$334.94 million	0.97	-$17.62 million	($0.22)	-18.45

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

Summary

Intellicheck Mobilisa beats Bigcommerce on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Intellicheck Mobilisa

Intellicheck, Inc., a technology company, develops, integrates, and markets threat identification and identity authentication solutions for bank and retail fraud prevention, law enforcement threat identification, and mobile and handheld access control and security systems primarily in the United States. 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 that provides the ability to scan an ID using a mobile phone; IDN-Portal+ that uses a retail scanner to validate an ID, and get additional data for analytics and analysis; 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 Bigcommerce

BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service platform for small businesses, mid-markets, and large enterprises in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company’s platform provides various services for launching and scaling e-commerce operation, including store design, catalog management, hosting, checkout, order management, reporting, and pre-integrations. As of December 31, 2021, it served approximately 60,000 online stores across industries. BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.