Contrasting Ifan Financial (OTCMKTS:IFAN) and Arteris (NASDAQ:AIP)

Ifan Financial (OTCMKTS:IFAN) and Arteris (NASDAQ:AIP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Ifan Financial and Arteris’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ifan Financial	N/A	N/A	N/A
Arteris	-44.92%	N/A	-26.01%

Volatility and Risk

Ifan Financial has a beta of -0.16, indicating that its share price is 116% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arteris has a beta of 1.98, indicating that its share price is 98% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

64.4% of Arteris shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.1% of Arteris shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Ifan Financial and Arteris”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ifan Financial	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Arteris	$70.58 million	24.33	-$34.75 million	($0.79)	-47.08

Ifan Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Arteris.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Ifan Financial and Arteris, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ifan Financial	0	0	0	0	0.00
Arteris	1	1	2	0	2.25

Arteris has a consensus price target of $37.75, suggesting a potential upside of 1.51%. Given Arteris’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Arteris is more favorable than Ifan Financial.

Summary

Arteris beats Ifan Financial on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ifan Financial

IFAN Financial, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, and distributes software to enable mobile payments. Its products include the ability to use a debit card and corresponding PIN number while purchasing online on a mobile phone, tablet, or computer, as well as peer-to-peer cash transfers. It has a portfolio of solutions, including mobile optimized white label' solutions with the ability to facilitate on demand payments, autopay, proximity payments and marketing, and a proprietary linked debit cards. The company's white label' enterprise solutions offer mobile banking products and mobile commerce products, as well as white label mobile wallet and payment solutions. It also provides prepaid card programs for businesses and consumers; and traditional financial services for merchants separate from the Platform or using select features from it. The company was formerly known as Infantly Available, Inc. and changed its name to IFAN Financial, Inc. in September 2014. IFAN Financial, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Diego, California.

About Arteris

Arteris, Inc. provides semiconductor interconnect intellectual property (IP) and System-on-Chip (Soc) Integration Automation software solutions (SIA) in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East. The company develops, licenses, and supports the on-chip interconnect fabric technology used in Soc designs and Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnect IP. Its products include FlexNoC and FlexWay silicon-proven interconnect IP products; Ncore, a silicon-proven and cache coherent interconnect IP product that provides scalable, configurable, and area efficient characteristics; and CodaCache, a last-level cache semiconductor IP product. The company also offers SIA products comprising Magillem Connectivity that shortens and streamlines the SoC integration process; and Magillem Registers and CSRCompiler that addresses hardware-software integration challenges for SoCs. The company serves semiconductor manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers, hyperscale system houses, semiconductor design houses, and other producers of electronic systems. Arteris, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Campbell, California.