LIVE vs DAIO Comparison

Live Ventures Inc is a holding company of diversified businesses. It acquires and operates companies with a history of earnings power across five segments: Retail-Entertainment, Retail-Flooring, Flooring Manufacturing, Steel Manufacturing, and Corporate & Other. Retail-Entertainment offers new and pre-owned movies, video games, music, books, comics and collectibles through an integrated buy-sell-trade model. Retail-Flooring is a retailer and installer of flooring, carpeting, and countertops, serving consumers, builders, and contractors. Flooring Manufacturing produces and distributes carpet and hard-surface flooring. Steel Manufacturing engages in steel production and fabrication, generating the majority of revenue. Corporate & Other covers corporate costs and legacy products and services.

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.