Analyzing Intellicheck (NYSE:IDN) and Maquia Capital Acquisition (NASDAQ:MAQC)

Maquia Capital Acquisition (NASDAQ:MAQC) and Intellicheck (NYSE:IDN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Maquia Capital Acquisition and Intellicheck’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Maquia Capital Acquisition	N/A	-10.66%	10.86%
Intellicheck	-3.37%	-1.59%	-1.23%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Maquia Capital Acquisition and Intellicheck, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Maquia Capital Acquisition	0	0	0	0	0.00
Intellicheck	0	0	3	0	3.00

Intellicheck has a consensus target price of $6.17, suggesting a potential upside of 14.20%. Given Intellicheck’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Intellicheck is more favorable than Maquia Capital Acquisition.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Maquia Capital Acquisition and Intellicheck”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Maquia Capital Acquisition	N/A	N/A	-$960,000.00	N/A	N/A
Intellicheck	$20.66 million	5.24	-$1.98 million	($0.04)	-135.00

Maquia Capital Acquisition has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Intellicheck.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

12.4% of Maquia Capital Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of Intellicheck shares are owned by institutional investors. 92.7% of Maquia Capital Acquisition shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of Intellicheck shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

Maquia Capital Acquisition has a beta of -0.03, indicating that its share price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intellicheck has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Intellicheck beats Maquia Capital Acquisition on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Maquia Capital Acquisition

Maquia Capital Acquisition Corporation does not have significant operations. It focuses on effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company intends to focus its search on technology-focused middle market and emerging growth companies in North America. Maquia Capital Acquisition Corporation was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Miami, Florida.

About Intellicheck

Intellicheck, Inc., a technology company, provides on-demand digital identity validation solutions for KYC, fraud, and age verification needs in North America. The company offers solutions for digital and physical identities for financial services, fintech companies, BNPL providers, e-commerce and retail commerce businesses, law enforcement, and government agencies. 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, an Intellicheck-branded identity validation application that provides the ability to scan an ID using a mobile phone; IDN-Portal+ that offers document validation, retail POS integration, additional data for analytics and analysis, and online validation, and other features; 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.