Sify Technologies (NASDAQ:SIFY – Get Free Report) and PubMatic (NASDAQ:PUBM – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Sify Technologies and PubMatic”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
Sify Technologies | $430.48 million | 0.24 | $590,000.00 | N/A | N/A |
PubMatic | $290.35 million | 2.60 | $8.88 million | $0.31 | 51.06 |
PubMatic has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Sify Technologies.
Risk and Volatility
Profitability
This table compares Sify Technologies and PubMatic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
Sify Technologies | -0.08% | -0.40% | -0.14% |
PubMatic | 5.96% | 6.12% | 2.58% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Sify Technologies and PubMatic, as provided by MarketBeat.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
Sify Technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
PubMatic | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2.63 |
PubMatic has a consensus target price of $21.71, indicating a potential upside of 37.17%. Given PubMatic’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PubMatic is more favorable than Sify Technologies.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
0.6% of Sify Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of PubMatic shares are held by institutional investors. 77.0% of Sify Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of PubMatic shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
PubMatic beats Sify Technologies on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Sify Technologies
Sify Technologies Limited offers ICT solutions and services in India and internationally. It operates through Network Centric Services, Data Center Services, and Digital Services segments. The company offers internet, internet protocol, multi-protocol label switching, virtual private network, SDWAN, managed Wi-Fi, internet of things, wholesale and retail voice, dedicated internet access, and proactive monitoring and management of the network and devices. It provides co-location services; and managed hosting services, such as storage, back-up management, performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring and management, network availability, server load balancing, managed shared firewall, web server log reporting, and remote and smart hands services. In addition, it offers managed network services; EDGE services; cloud and managed services, including infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, virtual private data center, computing services, IT platform, backup and recovery solution, and content delivery network; remote and onsite infrastructure managed services; and managed security services. Further, the company provides technology integration services; application integration services, which includes talent management, supply chain management, web portal solutions content services, portal development and maintenance, eLearning, digital signature, SAP, Microsoft, Oracle services. The company was formerly known as Sify Limited and changed its name to Sify Technologies Limited in October 2007. Sify Technologies Limited was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Chennai, India. Sify Technologies Limited is a subsidiary of Ramanand Core Investment Company Private Limited.
About PubMatic
PubMatic, Inc., a technology company, engages in the provision of a cloud infrastructure platform that enables real-time programmatic advertising transactions for digital content creators, advertisers, agencies, agency trading desks, and demand side platforms worldwide. Its PubMatic SSP, a sell-side platform, used for the purchase and sale of digital advertising inventory for publishers and buyers. The company also provides solutions, including OpenWrap, a header bidding solution; Openwrap OTT, a prebid-powered unified bidding solution; Openwrap SDK, an enterprise-grade management tools and analytics; Connect, a solution that provides additional data and insights to publishers and buyers; Activate, which allows buyers to execute direct deals on its platform across publisher inventory; Convert, a commerce media solution; and Identity Hub, an ID management tool for publishers that leverages specialized technology?infrastructure?to simplify the complex alternative identifier marketplace. Its platform supports an array of ad formats and digital device types, including mobile app, mobile web, desktop, display, video, over-the-top (OTT), connected television, and media. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Redwood City, California.
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