API vs. INSE, MTC, AISP, ALAR, FNGR, MAPS, AIXI, EXFY, XPER, and CCRD
Should you be buying Agora stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agora include Inspired Entertainment (INSE), MMTec (MTC), Airship AI (AISP), Alarum Technologies (ALAR), FingerMotion (FNGR), WM Technology (MAPS), Xiao-I (AIXI), Expensify (EXFY), Xperi (XPER), and CoreCard (CCRD). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Inspired Entertainment (NASDAQ:INSE) and Agora (NASDAQ:API) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
Inspired Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than Agora. Agora is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Inspired Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Inspired Entertainment currently has a consensus target price of $16.25, suggesting a potential upside of 83.00%. Agora has a consensus target price of $3.20, suggesting a potential upside of 28.51%. Given Agora's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Inspired Entertainment is more favorable than Agora.
In the previous week, Inspired Entertainment had 11 more articles in the media than Agora. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Inspired Entertainment and 0 mentions for Agora. Agora's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Inspired Entertainment's score of 0.17 indicating that Inspired Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Inspired Entertainment has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agora has a beta of 0.04, suggesting that its share price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Inspired Entertainment received 130 more outperform votes than Agora when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.30% of users gave Inspired Entertainment an outperform vote while only 48.28% of users gave Agora an outperform vote.
Inspired Entertainment has a net margin of 2.25% compared to Inspired Entertainment's net margin of -61.62%. Agora's return on equity of -13.11% beat Inspired Entertainment's return on equity.
77.4% of Inspired Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.4% of Agora shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.4% of Inspired Entertainment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Inspired Entertainment beats Agora on 17 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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