API vs. RSSS, UPLD, OLO, MODN, RMNI, ONTF, CTV, KOPN, MTLS, and QSI
Should you be buying Agora stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agora include Research Solutions (RSSS), Upland Software (UPLD), OLO (OLO), Model N (MODN), Rimini Street (RMNI), ON24 (ONTF), Innovid (CTV), Kopin (KOPN), Materialise (MTLS), and Quantum-Si (QSI).
Research Solutions (NASDAQ:RSSS) and Agora (NASDAQ:API) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation and risk.
Research Solutions has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Agora. Research Solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agora, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Research Solutions has a net margin of -1.05% compared to Research Solutions' net margin of -61.62%. Agora's return on equity of -4.96% beat Research Solutions' return on equity.
Agora received 5 more outperform votes than Research Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Research Solutions an outperform vote while only 48.28% of users gave Agora an outperform vote.
Research Solutions has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agora has a beta of 0.04, indicating that its stock price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Research Solutions had 22 more articles in the media than Agora. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Research Solutions and 5 mentions for Agora. Agora's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Research Solutions' score of 0.28 indicating that Research Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the media.
35.0% of Research Solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.7% of Agora shares are held by institutional investors. 26.5% of Research Solutions shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Research Solutions currently has a consensus price target of $4.68, suggesting a potential upside of 58.47%. Agora has a consensus price target of $3.20, suggesting a potential upside of 26.48%. Given Agora's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Research Solutions is more favorable than Agora.
Summary
Research Solutions beats Agora on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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