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The following are today's upgrades for Validea's Price/Sales Investor model based on the published strategy of Kenneth Fisher. This value strategy rewards stocks with low P/S ratios, long-term profit growth, strong free cash flow and consistent profit margins.

IDENTIV INC (INVE) is a small-cap value stock in the Computer Hardware industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Kenneth Fisher changed from 28% to 60% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.

Company Description: Identiv, Inc. is a global provider of secure identification and physical security. The Company operates through two segments: Identity segment and Premises segment. Identity segment designs, technologies, and intellectual property (IP) that enable the secure digital capabilities of radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips to work within the analog world of antennas, power harvesting, data conversion and security. Premises segment offers a comprehensive, end-to-end product line with customization that meets the varying needs of the customers. Premises business product portfolio includes identity credentials, access readers, access control systems, video management systems, and video analytics, deployed in a hyper-converged platform or a cloud-based architecture. The Company's software platform for premises digitization enables centralized management of a physical place, including control of doors, cameras, gates, elevators and other building equipment.

The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.

Detailed Analysis of IDENTIV INC

About Kenneth Fisher: The son of Philip Fisher, who is considered the "Father of Growth Investing", Kenneth Fisher is a money manager, bestselling author, and longtime Forbes columnist. The younger Fisher wowed Wall Street in the mid-1980s when his book Super Stocks first popularized the idea of using the price/sales ratio (PSR) as a means of identifying attractive stocks. According to his alma mater, Humboldt State University, Fisher is also one of the world's foremost experts on 19th century logging. Appropriately, Fisher's firm, Fisher Investments, is located in a lush forest preserve in Woodside, California, where the contrarian-minded Fisher says he and his employees can get away from Wall Street groupthink.

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