Snail (SNAL) Competitors

CSP (NASDAQ:CSPI) and Snail (NASDAQ:SNAL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.

Is CSPI or SNAL more profitable?

Snail has a net margin of 3.15% compared to CSP's net margin of 0.14%. Snail's return on equity of 136.34% beat CSP's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CSP	0.14%	0.17%	0.12%
Snail	3.15%	136.34%	3.51%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in CSPI or SNAL?

26.7% of CSP shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.4% of Snail shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of CSP shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 78.2% of Snail shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, CSPI or SNAL?

CSP has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Snail. CSP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Snail, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CSP	$55.51M	2.66	-$330K	-$0.16	-93.34
Snail	$90.46M	0.38	-$9.09M	$0.04	23.13

Does the media refer more to CSPI or SNAL?

In the previous week, Snail had 9 more articles in the media than CSP. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Snail and 6 mentions for CSP. CSP's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Snail's score of 0.09 indicating that CSP is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CSP	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Snail	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CSPI or SNAL?

CSP received 198 more outperform votes than Snail when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Snail an outperform vote while only 63.17% of users gave CSP an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CSP	Outperform Votes 199 63.17%	Underperform Votes 116 36.83%
Snail	Outperform Votes 1 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes

Which has more risk and volatility, CSPI or SNAL?

CSP has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Snail has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Snail beats CSP on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.