Reviewing NCR Voyix (NYSE:VYX) & TruGolf (NASDAQ:TRUG)

NCR Voyix (NYSE:VYX) and TruGolf (NASDAQ:TRUG) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares NCR Voyix and TruGolf”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NCR Voyix	$2.83 billion	0.60	$958.00 million	$7.13	1.72
TruGolf	$21.86 million	0.17	-$8.80 million	($34.50)	-0.12

NCR Voyix has higher revenue and earnings than TruGolf. TruGolf is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NCR Voyix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for NCR Voyix and TruGolf, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NCR Voyix	0	1	4	0	2.80
TruGolf	0	0	1	0	3.00

NCR Voyix currently has a consensus target price of $14.20, suggesting a potential upside of 15.49%. TruGolf has a consensus target price of $100.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2,241.92%. Given TruGolf’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TruGolf is more favorable than NCR Voyix.

Volatility and Risk

NCR Voyix has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TruGolf has a beta of -0.91, meaning that its stock price is 191% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

97.0% of NCR Voyix shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.2% of TruGolf shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of NCR Voyix shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 36.9% of TruGolf shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares NCR Voyix and TruGolf’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NCR Voyix	38.86%	-2.84%	-0.60%
TruGolf	-45.71%	N/A	-58.94%

Summary

NCR Voyix beats TruGolf on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NCR Voyix

NCR Voyix Corporation provides various software and services in the United States, the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through three segments: Retail; Restaurants; and Digital Banking. It offers software, services, and hardware; and digital banking solutions for financial institution’s consumer and business customers. The company provides solutions for banking channel services, transaction processing, imaging, and branch services. In addition, it offers solutions for retail industry comprising comprehensive API-point of sale (POS) retail software platforms and applications, hardware terminals and peripherals, payment processing solutions, and consumer engagement solutions, as well as self-service kiosks, which consists of self-checkout (SCO). Further, the company provides technology solutions to customers in the restaurant industry comprising table-service, quick-service, and fast casual restaurants. Additionally, it offers cloud-based and platform-enabled software applications for point-of-sale, back office, payment processing, kitchen production, restaurant management, eCommerce, mobile ordering, and consumer marketing and loyalty; and restaurant -oriented hardware products, such as POS terminals, kitchen display systems, handheld devices, printers, and peripherals. It also offers solutions for customer account opening and onboarding across digital, branch, and call center channels. The company serves grocery stores, drug stores, and box retailers; and quick service, table service and fast casual restaurants of all sizes, small-and-medium sized businesses to large multi-national, and enterprise clients. The company was formerly known as NCR Corporation and changed its name to NCR Voyix Corporation in October 2023. NCR Voyix Corporation was incorporated in 1884 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

About TruGolf

TruGolf Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, engages in the development and sale of indoor golf simulator hardware under the TruGolf Nevada brand for residential and commercial markets in the United States. It also provides E6 Connect software for use on other companies' hardware. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Centerville, Utah.