

Other companies still on the list may not be tracked after 2018, including stocks like Lowe’s, which recently announced its plans to exit the smart home space as soon as it can sell off its Iris home automation platform.Īs always, many of the stock prices (rise or fall) are not reflective specifically of the state of the smart home market. There are always a number of IPOs focused on the market too, including ADT, Resideo, Arlo and Summit Wireless (WiSA) in 2018.

As always, the list changes every year as companies buy into the smart home space, or sell their smart home assets. The list of publicly held companies tracked by CE Pro includes 52 companies this year. Overall, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.1 percent in 2018, so custom integration stocks clearly did not perform as well as the general market, which was characterized by tremendous up and down swings the final month of the year.
