Head to Head Review: uCloudlink Group (NASDAQ:UCL) and Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM)

uCloudlink Group (NASDAQ:UCL) and Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares uCloudlink Group and Iron Mountain”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
uCloudlink Group	$91.64 million	0.88	$4.56 million	$0.05	42.80
Iron Mountain	$6.15 billion	4.96	$180.16 million	$0.14	738.29

Iron Mountain has higher revenue and earnings than uCloudlink Group. uCloudlink Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Iron Mountain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

85.5% of uCloudlink Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.1% of Iron Mountain shares are held by institutional investors. 54.6% of uCloudlink Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Iron Mountain shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

uCloudlink Group has a beta of 4.3, meaning that its stock price is 330% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Iron Mountain has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares uCloudlink Group and Iron Mountain’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
uCloudlink Group	2.19%	8.89%	3.10%
Iron Mountain	0.66%	-146.80%	2.83%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for uCloudlink Group and Iron Mountain, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
uCloudlink Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Iron Mountain	0	0	6	1	3.14

Iron Mountain has a consensus price target of $116.83, suggesting a potential upside of 13.04%. Given Iron Mountain’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Iron Mountain is more favorable than uCloudlink Group.

Summary

Iron Mountain beats uCloudlink Group on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About uCloudlink Group

uCloudlink Group Inc. operates as a mobile data traffic sharing marketplace in the telecommunications industry. The company provides uCloudlink 1.0, a model that focuses on cross-border travelers that need mobile data connectivity services in various countries; and operates portable Wi-Fi services under the Roamingman name in China and Malaysia, which provides global mobile data connectivity services, as well as offers GlocalMe portable Wi-Fi terminals and cloud SIM architecture for mobile virtual network operators, mobile network operators (MNOs), and portable Wi-Fi terminal rental companies. It also offers uCloudlink 2.0, a model that provides mobile data connectivity services to local users through various MNOs; GlocalMe Inside, an implementation solution for smartphones and other smart hardware products, which enables them to access its cloud SIM architecture and SIM card pool; and GlocalMe, a world phone series. In addition, the company provides IoT modules with GlocalMe Inside implementation to meet the demand for mobile data from various terminals, as well as provides integrated network solutions to its customers; SIM cards with prepaid data packages; and value-added services, such as advertisement. Further, it's platform-as-a-service/software-as-a-service offers modules, such as customer relationship management, operations and business support system, and SIM card enterprise resource planning and management. uCloudlink Group Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong.

About Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a global leader in information management services. Founded in 1951 and trusted by more than 240,000 customers worldwide, Iron Mountain serves to protect and elevate the power of our customers’ work. Through a range of offerings including digital transformation, data centers, secure records storage, information management, asset lifecycle management, secure destruction and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps businesses bring light to their dark data, enabling customers to unlock value and intelligence from their stored digital and physical assets at speed and with security, while helping them meet their environmental goals.