Reviewing One Stop Systems (NASDAQ:OSS) and TD SYNNEX (NYSE:SNX)

One Stop Systems (NASDAQ:OSS) and TD SYNNEX (NYSE:SNX) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for One Stop Systems and TD SYNNEX, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
One Stop Systems	1	0	3	0	2.50
TD SYNNEX	0	2	9	1	2.92

One Stop Systems presently has a consensus price target of $6.17, suggesting a potential upside of 19.97%. TD SYNNEX has a consensus price target of $169.55, suggesting a potential upside of 10.53%. Given One Stop Systems’ higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe One Stop Systems is more favorable than TD SYNNEX.

Volatility and Risk

One Stop Systems has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TD SYNNEX has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

32.7% of One Stop Systems shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of TD SYNNEX shares are held by institutional investors. 10.8% of One Stop Systems shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of TD SYNNEX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares One Stop Systems and TD SYNNEX’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
One Stop Systems	-25.34%	-50.85%	-35.62%
TD SYNNEX	1.27%	12.13%	3.29%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares One Stop Systems and TD SYNNEX”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
One Stop Systems	$54.69 million	2.06	-$13.63 million	($0.65)	-7.91
TD SYNNEX	$58.45 billion	0.21	$689.09 million	$9.22	16.64

TD SYNNEX has higher revenue and earnings than One Stop Systems. One Stop Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TD SYNNEX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

TD SYNNEX beats One Stop Systems on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About One Stop Systems

One Stop Systems, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of high-performance compute, high speed storage hardware and software, switch fabrics, and systems for edge deployments in the United States and internationally. The company's systems are built using the central processing unit, graphical processing unit, high-speed switch fabrics, and flash storage technologies. It provides custom servers, data acquisition platforms, compute accelerators, solid-state storage arrays, and system I/O expansion systems, as well as edge optimized industrial and panel PCs, tablets, and handheld compute devices. The company also offers ruggedized mobile tablets and handhelds that meet the specialized requirement for devices deployed at the edge in a diverse set of environmental conditions. It sells its products to multinational companies, governmental agencies, military contractors, military services, and technology providers through its website, web store, direct sales team, and original equipment manufacturer focused sales, as well as through a network of resellers and distributors. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Escondido, California.

About TD SYNNEX

TD SYNNEX Corporation operates as a distributor and solutions aggregator for the information technology (IT) ecosystem. The company offers personal computing devices and peripherals, mobile phones and accessories, printers, supplies, and endpoint technology software; and data center technologies, such as hybrid cloud, security, storage, networking, servers, technology software, and converged and hyper-converged infrastructure, as well as computing components. It also provides systems design and rack integration, build-to-order, and configure-to-order assembly; and thermal testing, power-draw testing, burn-in, and quality and logistics support. In addition, the company offers outsourced fulfillment, virtual distribution, and direct ship to end-users; shipping documents generation, multi-level serial number tracking, and configured products and online order and shipment tracking, as well as turn-key logistics solutions. Further, it provides public cloud solutions in productivity and collaboration, IaaS, or Infrastructure as a Service, PaaS, or Platform as a Service, SaaS, or Software as a Service, security, mobility, IoT, and other hybrid solutions. Additionally, the company offers online services; provides net terms, third party leasing, floor plan financing, and letters-of-credit backed financing and arrangement; and leases products and provides device-as-a-service, as well as offers direct mail, external media advertising, reseller product training, targeted telemarketing campaigns, national and regional trade shows, trade groups, database analysis, print on demand services, and web-based marketing. It serves value-added resellers, corporate resellers, government resellers, system integrators, direct marketers, retailers, and managed service providers. The company was formerly known as SYNNEX Corporation and changed its name to TD SYNNEX Corporation in September 2021. TD SYNNEX Corporation was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.