IDEX Biometrics ASA (NASDAQ:IDBA – Get Rating) and Cerner (NASDAQ:CERN – Get Rating) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and dividends.
Risk & Volatility
IDEX Biometrics ASA has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cerner has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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Valuation and Earnings
This table compares IDEX Biometrics ASA and Cerner's top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio |
| IDEX Biometrics ASA | $2.84 million | 32.33 | -$32.55 million | ($3.59) | -1.89 |
| Cerner | $5.76 billion | 4.84 | $555.60 million | $1.99 | 47.70 |
Cerner has higher revenue and earnings than IDEX Biometrics ASA. IDEX Biometrics ASA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cerner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
0.0% of IDEX Biometrics ASA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.2% of Cerner shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of IDEX Biometrics ASA shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Cerner shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares IDEX Biometrics ASA and Cerner's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets |
| IDEX Biometrics ASA | -1,000.63% | -127.63% | -113.82% |
| Cerner | 10.15% | 22.86% | 11.75% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for IDEX Biometrics ASA and Cerner, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score |
| IDEX Biometrics ASA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Cerner | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
IDEX Biometrics ASA presently has a consensus price target of $36.00, suggesting a potential upside of 429.41%. Cerner has a consensus price target of $89.20, suggesting a potential downside of 6.03%. Given IDEX Biometrics ASA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IDEX Biometrics ASA is more favorable than Cerner.
Summary
Cerner beats IDEX Biometrics ASA on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About IDEX Biometrics ASA
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IDEX Biometrics ASA engages in the design, development, and sale of fingerprint authentication solutions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific regions. The company's fingerprint authentication solutions are used primarily in contactless financial payment, access control, and smart cards, as well as card-based devices for the storage of digital currencies. It primarily serves manufacturers of smart cards for financial payment applications and biometric payment card markets. IDEX Biometrics ASA was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.
About Cerner
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Cerner Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides health care information technology solutions and tech-enabled services in the United States and internationally. It offers Cerner Millennium architecture, a person-centric computing framework, which includes clinical, financial, and management information systems that allow providers to access an individual's electronic health record (EHR) at the point of care, and organizes and delivers information for physicians, nurses, laboratory technicians, pharmacists, front- and back-office professionals, and consumers. The company also provides HealtheIntent platform, a cloud-based platform to aggregate, transform, and reconcile data across the continuum of care; and CareAware, an EHR agnostic platform that facilitates connectivity of health care devices to EHRs. In addition, it offers a portfolio of clinical and financial healthcare information technology solutions, as well as departmental and care coordination solutions. Further, the company provides tech-enabled services, such as implementation and training, remote hosting, application management, revenue cycle, support and maintenance, health care data analysis, real-world evidence, clinical process optimization, transaction processing, employer health centers, and data-driven services; and complementary hardware and devices for third parties. It serves integrated delivery networks, physician groups and networks, managed care organizations, hospitals, medical centers, free-standing reference laboratories, home health agencies, blood banks, imaging centers, pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, employers, governments, and public health organizations. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in North Kansas City, Missouri.
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