COHN vs DAIO Comparison

Cohen & Co Inc is a United States company that delivers financial services in fixed-income markets. It is focused on small-cap banking institutions and has grown to provide an expanding range of capital markets and asset management services. It has three business segments. The Capital Markets segment, which is the key revenue driver, consists of fixed-income sales, trading, matched book repo financing, new issue placements in corporate and securitized products, and advisory services. The Asset Management segment manages assets within collateralized debt obligations, managed accounts, joint ventures, and investment funds. The Principal Investing segment is comprised of investments to earn return rather than to support trading, matched book repo, or other Capital Markets segment activities.

Data I/O Corp provides semiconductor programming, security provisioning, and intellectual property protection and management solutions used in electronics manufacturing with flash memory, microcontrollers, and flash memory-based intelligent devices as well as secure element devices, authentication devices and secure microcontrollers. It operates as a single segment entity, with the sole objective to design, manufacture, and sell programming solutions and Programming-as-a-Service (PaaS) to the world's various electronics manufacturers including OEMs, CMs and EMS companies. The company operate in three separate locations Redmond, Washington; Shanghai, China; and Munich, Germany.