Comparing Riskified (NYSE:RSKD) and Eqonex (NASDAQ:EQOS)

Eqonex (NASDAQ:EQOS) and Riskified (NYSE:RSKD) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

59.0% of Riskified shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.4% of Riskified shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Eqonex and Riskified, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Eqonex	0	0	0	0	0.00
Riskified	1	4	3	0	2.25

Riskified has a consensus price target of $6.03, suggesting a potential upside of 28.32%. Given Riskified’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Riskified is more favorable than Eqonex.

Profitability

This table compares Eqonex and Riskified’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Eqonex	N/A	N/A	N/A
Riskified	-10.72%	-6.00%	-4.87%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Eqonex and Riskified”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Eqonex	$5.30 million	N/A	-$75.00 million	N/A	N/A
Riskified	$333.50 million	2.27	-$59.03 million	($0.22)	-21.36

Riskified has higher revenue and earnings than Eqonex.

Summary

Riskified beats Eqonex on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Eqonex

Eqonex Limited operates as a digital assets financial services company. It operates through three divisions: Custody, Asset Management, and Brokerage. The company provides Digivault, a custody solution; Bletchley Park, a digital asset investment solution for institutional and professional investors; and EQONEX Investment products that issues securitized products. It also operates an over-the-counter brokerage, and borrowing and lending services, as well as structured products. The company was formerly known as Diginex Limited and changed its name to Eqonex Limited in October 2021. Eqonex Limited is headquartered in Singapore.

About Riskified

Riskified Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops and offers an e-commerce risk management platform that allows online merchants to create trusted relationships with consumers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and the Americas. It offers Chargeback Guarantee that ensures the legitimacy of merchants' online orders; Policy Protect, a machine learning solution designed to detect and prevent refund and returns policy abuse in real-time; Account Secure, a solution that cross-checks every login attempt; Dispute Resolve, which is used to compile submissions for fraud and non-fraud related chargeback issues; and PSD2 Optimize that helps merchants avoid bank authorization failures and abandoned shopping carts. The company serves direct-to-consumer brands, online-only retailers, omnichannel retailers, online marketplaces, and e-commerce service providers in various industries, such as payments, money transfer and crypto, tickets and travel, electronics, home, and fashion and luxury goods. Riskified Ltd. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.