Comparing Smartkem (NASDAQ:SMTK) & POET Technologies (NASDAQ:POET)

Smartkem (NASDAQ:SMTK) and POET Technologies (NASDAQ:POET) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Smartkem and POET Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Smartkem	0	0	0	0	0.00
POET Technologies	0	0	2	1	3.33

POET Technologies has a consensus price target of $6.25, indicating a potential downside of 10.20%. Given POET Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe POET Technologies is more favorable than Smartkem.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

2.0% of POET Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of Smartkem shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of POET Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Smartkem and POET Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Smartkem	N/A	-167.89%	-111.60%
POET Technologies	N/A	-194.16%	-132.32%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Smartkem and POET Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Smartkem	$40,000.00	136.91	-$8.50 million	N/A	N/A
POET Technologies	$119,946.00	4,438.24	-$20.27 million	($0.59)	-11.80

Smartkem has higher earnings, but lower revenue than POET Technologies.

Summary

POET Technologies beats Smartkem on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Smartkem

SmartKem, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops materials and processes used to make organic thin-film (OTFT) transistors for the manufacture of flexible electronics. The company offers TRUFLEX semiconductor and dielectric inks, which uses low temperature printing processes to make transistors for the display industry. Its electronic polymer platform is used in display technologies, such as miniLED, microLED, and AMOLED displays that can drive televisions, laptops, augmented and virtual reality headsets, smartwatches, and smartphones. It also provides prototypes for customers. SmartKem, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Manchester, the United Kingdom.

About POET Technologies

POET Technologies Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells discrete and integrated opto-electronic solutions in Canada, the United States, Singapore, and China. It offers integration solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer, a novel platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. It also develops photonic integrated components. The company serves the data center, telecommunications, Internet of things and industrial sensing, automotive LIDAR, optical coherence tomography for medical devices, and virtual reality systems markets. The company was formerly known as Opel Technologies Inc. and changed its name to POET Technologies Inc. in June 2013. POET Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 1972 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.