Critical Comparison: Calix (NYSE:CALX) versus UiPath (NYSE:PATH)

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) and Calix (NYSE:CALX) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for UiPath and Calix, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
UiPath	2	12	2	1	2.12
Calix	0	2	4	0	2.67

UiPath currently has a consensus price target of $13.18, indicating a potential upside of 11.59%. Calix has a consensus price target of $64.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.31%. Given UiPath’s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe UiPath is more favorable than Calix.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

62.5% of UiPath shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.1% of Calix shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.2% of UiPath shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.9% of Calix shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares UiPath and Calix’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
UiPath	1.35%	1.28%	0.83%
Calix	-3.09%	-3.21%	-2.68%

Volatility & Risk

UiPath has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Calix has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares UiPath and Calix”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
UiPath	$1.50 billion	4.19	-$73.69 million	$0.03	393.67
Calix	$831.52 million	4.82	-$29.75 million	($0.40)	-153.38

Calix has lower revenue, but higher earnings than UiPath. Calix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UiPath, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

UiPath beats Calix on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About UiPath

UiPath Inc. provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers a suite of interrelated software to build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automation within the organization. Its platform's embedded AI, ML, and NLP capabilities improve decisioning and information processing; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; multi-tenant platform enterprise deployment with security and governance and Automation Cloud, which enables customers to begin automating without the need to provision infrastructure, install applications, or perform additional configurations; intuitive interface and low-code, drag-and-drop functionality; signed to enable people and automations to work together; and tracks, measures, and forecasts the performance of automations, enables customers to gain powerful insights and generate key performance indicators with actionable metric. It serves banking and financial services, healthcare, insurance, public sectors, manufacturing, retail, and telecom industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

About Calix

Calix, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of cloud and software platforms, and systems and services in the United States, rest of Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Its cloud and software platforms, and systems and services enable broadband service providers (BSPs) to provide a range of services. The company provides Calix Cloud platform, a role-based analytics platform comprising Calix Engagement Cloud, Calix Service Cloud, and Calix Operations Cloud, which are configurable to display role-based insights and enable BSPs to anticipate and target new revenue-generating services and applications through mobile application, such as CommandIQ for residents and CommandWorx for businesses; Calix Intelligent Access EDGE, an access network solution for automated and intelligent networks; and Calix Revenue EDGE, a premises solution for subscriber managed services. It also offers SmartLife managed services, including SmartHome managed services and applications to enhance, operate and secure the connected experience of subscribers in their home; SmartTown managed services that reimagine community Wi-Fi as a ubiquitous, secure, and managed experience across a BSP's footprint; and SmartBiz managed services that address the business networking and productivity needs of business owners with an all-in-one managed service. In addition, the company provides Wi-Fi systems under GigaSpire and GigaPro brands to be ready for deployment as a complete subscriber experience solution for BSP's residential and business subscribers. It offers its products through its direct sales force and resellers. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.