API vs. INSE, FNGR, ALAR, MAPS, AISP, EXFY, CCRD, ZENV, FAAS, and RCAT
Should you be buying Agora stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Agora include Inspired Entertainment (INSE), FingerMotion (FNGR), Alarum Technologies (ALAR), WM Technology (MAPS), Airship AI (AISP), Expensify (EXFY), CoreCard (CCRD), Zenvia (ZENV), DigiAsia (FAAS), and Red Cat (RCAT). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Agora (NASDAQ:API) and Inspired Entertainment (NASDAQ:INSE) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Agora currently has a consensus target price of $3.20, suggesting a potential upside of 7.38%. Inspired Entertainment has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 81.41%. Given Inspired Entertainment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Inspired Entertainment is more favorable than Agora.
Inspired Entertainment received 131 more outperform votes than Agora when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.47% of users gave Inspired Entertainment an outperform vote while only 48.28% of users gave Agora an outperform vote.
40.4% of Agora shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.4% of Inspired Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.9% of Inspired Entertainment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Agora has a beta of 0.02, indicating that its share price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Inspired Entertainment has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Inspired Entertainment had 12 more articles in the media than Agora. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Inspired Entertainment and 3 mentions for Agora. Inspired Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Agora's score of 0.09 indicating that Inspired Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Inspired Entertainment has a net margin of 0.56% compared to Agora's net margin of -61.62%. Inspired Entertainment's return on equity of -9.10% beat Agora's return on equity.
Summary
Inspired Entertainment beats Agora on 17 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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