Financial Contrast: Beyond Commerce (OTCMKTS:BYOC) vs. LiveVox (NASDAQ:LVOX)

Beyond Commerce (OTCMKTS:BYOC) and LiveVox (NASDAQ:LVOX) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Beyond Commerce and LiveVox, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Beyond Commerce	0	0	0	0	N/A
LiveVox	0	3	1	0	2.25

LiveVox has a consensus price target of $3.33, suggesting a potential downside of 9.42%.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

92.5% of LiveVox shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Beyond Commerce shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of LiveVox shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Beyond Commerce and LiveVox’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Beyond Commerce	$4.05 million	0.00	-$2.38 million	N/A	N/A
LiveVox	$143.19 million	2.42	-$37.47 million	($0.28)	-13.14

Beyond Commerce has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LiveVox.

Profitability

This table compares Beyond Commerce and LiveVox’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Beyond Commerce	-50.08%	N/A	-40.84%
LiveVox	-18.55%	-23.63%	-12.85%

Risk and Volatility

Beyond Commerce has a beta of -0.01, indicating that its stock price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LiveVox has a beta of -0.83, indicating that its stock price is 183% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

LiveVox beats Beyond Commerce on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Beyond Commerce

Beyond Commerce, Inc. engages in the business-to-business Internet marketing technology and services, and information management market businesses. It offers content, business process management, customer feedback management, customer experience management, business network, and BYOC analytics services. The company was formerly known as BOOMj, Inc. and changed its name to Beyond Commerce, Inc. in February 2009. Beyond Commerce, Inc. is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

About LiveVox

LiveVox Holdings, Inc. develops and provides cloud contact center software for businesses. Its products include CRM, including contact manager and extract, transform, and load tools, U-CRM, U-Ticket, U-Script, and attempt supervisor; omnichannel and AI solutions, such as inbound and outbound voice solutions; interactive voice response (IVR) and contact flow solutions; dashboard, reporting, wall-boards; SMS messaging, email, and webchat; virtual agents and bots, including managed virtual agent, self-service virtual agent, and own virtual agent; and campaign management. The company also offers WEM solutions, including call and screen recording, business intelligence, quality management, outside collection agency (OCA) analytics, speech and text analytics, agent scheduling, CSAT, and administration and APIs. It serves financial services, including leading banks and fin-techs; telecommunications; healthcare; consumer/retail; BPO, and collection industries. LiveVox Holdings, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California.