APLD vs. RAMP, YY, LZ, ETWO, STER, UPWK, SSTK, CARS, TASK, and CSGS
Should you be buying Applied Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Applied Digital include LiveRamp (RAMP), JOYY (YY), LegalZoom.com (LZ), E2open Parent (ETWO), Sterling Check (STER), Upwork (UPWK), Shutterstock (SSTK), Cars.com (CARS), TaskUs (TASK), and CSG Systems International (CSGS). These companies are all part of the "data processing & preparation" industry.
Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) and LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
Applied Digital currently has a consensus target price of $7.40, indicating a potential upside of 35.53%. LiveRamp has a consensus target price of $50.25, indicating a potential upside of 70.51%. Given LiveRamp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe LiveRamp is more favorable than Applied Digital.
65.7% of Applied Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.8% of LiveRamp shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.5% of Applied Digital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of LiveRamp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
LiveRamp has higher revenue and earnings than Applied Digital. Applied Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LiveRamp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Applied Digital has a beta of 4.38, indicating that its stock price is 338% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LiveRamp has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Applied Digital had 3 more articles in the media than LiveRamp. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Applied Digital and 8 mentions for LiveRamp. LiveRamp's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Applied Digital's score of 0.51 indicating that LiveRamp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LiveRamp received 138 more outperform votes than Applied Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Applied Digital an outperform vote while only 68.92% of users gave LiveRamp an outperform vote.
LiveRamp has a net margin of 1.80% compared to Applied Digital's net margin of -61.84%. LiveRamp's return on equity of 3.27% beat Applied Digital's return on equity.
Summary
LiveRamp beats Applied Digital on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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