DigitalOcean (NYSE:DOCN – Get Free Report) and Clikia (OTCMKTS:CLKA – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and earnings.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares DigitalOcean and Clikia”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
DigitalOcean | $806.59 million | 3.50 | $19.41 million | $1.11 | 27.97 |
Clikia | N/A | N/A | -$540,000.00 | N/A | N/A |
Volatility & Risk
DigitalOcean has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Clikia has a beta of 3, indicating that its share price is 200% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations for DigitalOcean and Clikia, as provided by MarketBeat.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
DigitalOcean | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2.38 |
Clikia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
DigitalOcean currently has a consensus target price of $39.83, suggesting a potential upside of 28.28%. Given DigitalOcean’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe DigitalOcean is more favorable than Clikia.
Profitability
This table compares DigitalOcean and Clikia’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
DigitalOcean | 10.86% | -43.11% | 7.64% |
Clikia | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
49.8% of DigitalOcean shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of DigitalOcean shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
DigitalOcean beats Clikia on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates a cloud computing platform in North America, Europe, Asia, and internationally. The company’s platform provides on-demand infrastructure and platform tools for developers, start-ups, and small and growing digital businesses. It also offers infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions comprising compute and storage services, as well as networking projects, including Cloud Firewalls software, Managed Load Balancers software, and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The company also provides platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, such as managed databases; managed Kubernetes and container registry; application platform to build, deploy, and scale applications; Functions, a serverless compute solution; and Uptime for real-time uptime and latency alerts, as well as software-as-a-service (SaaS), including managed hosting and DigitalOcean Marketplace, a platform where developers can find pre-configured applications and solutions. In addition, it offers artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) applications comprising GPU virtual machines for scaling AI applications; Notebooks, a simple cloud workspace that runs on GPUs that provides a managed interactive development environment for exploring data, and training and building machine learning models; and Deployments for deploying their machine learning model as an API endpoint. The company’s customers include software engineers, researchers, data scientists, system administrators, students, and hobbyists. Its customers use its platform in various industry verticals and for a range of use cases, such as web and mobile applications, website hosting, e-commerce, media and gaming, personal web projects, managed services, and AI/ML applications. DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
About Clikia
Clikia Corp., through its subsidiary, Maison Luxe LLC, engages in retailing luxury goods. It primarily focuses on offering fine timepieces and jewelry on wholesale and business-to-consumer basis. The company is based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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