Contrasting Intelligent Living Application Group (NASDAQ:ILAG) & LSI Industries (NASDAQ:LYTS)

Intelligent Living Application Group (NASDAQ:ILAG) and LSI Industries (NASDAQ:LYTS) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Intelligent Living Application Group and LSI Industries, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Intelligent Living Application Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
LSI Industries	0	0	2	0	3.00

LSI Industries has a consensus target price of $26.00, suggesting a potential upside of 55.41%. Given LSI Industries’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LSI Industries is more favorable than Intelligent Living Application Group.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Intelligent Living Application Group and LSI Industries”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Intelligent Living Application Group	$7.51 million	1.25	-$3.69 million	N/A	N/A
LSI Industries	$469.64 million	1.07	$24.98 million	$0.72	23.24

LSI Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Intelligent Living Application Group.

Profitability

This table compares Intelligent Living Application Group and LSI Industries’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Intelligent Living Application Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
LSI Industries	4.00%	10.24%	6.13%

Volatility and Risk

Intelligent Living Application Group has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LSI Industries has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its stock price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.1% of Intelligent Living Application Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of LSI Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 51.8% of Intelligent Living Application Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of LSI Industries shares are held 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.

Summary

LSI Industries beats Intelligent Living Application Group on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Intelligent Living Application Group

Intelligent Living Application Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells mechanical locksets to customers in the United States and Canada. Its mechanical locksets consist of deadbolts, entry locksets, privacy locksets, and passage locksets as well as storerooms locks. The company offers locksets for outdoors comprising main entrances and gates, and indoor uses. Intelligent Living Application Group Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong.

About LSI Industries

LSI Industries Inc. produces and sells non-residential lighting and retail display solutions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Latin America. It operates through two segments, Lighting and Display Solutions. The Lighting segment manufactures, markets, and sells non-residential outdoor and indoor lighting fixture and control solutions in the commercial and industrial markets. This segment also offers lighting control products, including sensors, photocontrols, dimmers, motion detection, and Bluetooth systems to support lighting fixtures; and designs, engineers, and manufactures electronic circuit boards, assemblies, and sub-assemblies. The Display Solutions segment manufactures, sells, and installs exterior and interior visual image and display elements, including printed and structural graphics, digital signage, menu board systems, display fixtures, refrigerated displays, and custom display elements. This segments products and services include signage and canopy graphics, pump dispenser graphics, building fascia graphics, decals, interior signage and marketing graphics, aisle markers, wall mural graphics, and refrigerated and non-refrigerated merchandising displays. This segment also provides project management services comprising installation management, site surveys, permitting, and content management; and manages and executes the implementation of large rollout programs. It serves refueling and convenience store, parking lot and garage, quick-service restaurant, retail and grocery store, automotive, warehouse, sports court, and field markets, as well as warehouses. LSI Industries Inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.