Reviewing Priority Technology (NASDAQ:PRTH) & Maris-Tech (NASDAQ:MTEK)

Maris-Tech (NASDAQ:MTEK) and Priority Technology (NASDAQ:PRTH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Volatility & Risk

Maris-Tech has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Priority Technology has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Maris-Tech and Priority Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Maris-Tech	N/A	N/A	N/A
Priority Technology	5.78%	-60.29%	4.35%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.6% of Maris-Tech shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.5% of Priority Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.3% of Maris-Tech shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 66.2% of Priority Technology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Maris-Tech and Priority Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Maris-Tech	1	0	0	0	1.00
Priority Technology	0	3	2	1	2.67

Priority Technology has a consensus price target of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 45.55%. Given Priority Technology’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Priority Technology is more favorable than Maris-Tech.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Maris-Tech and Priority Technology”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Maris-Tech	$3.38 million	3.47	-$1.23 million	N/A	N/A
Priority Technology	$932.95 million	0.51	$23.38 million	$0.53	11.02

Priority Technology has higher revenue and earnings than Maris-Tech.

Summary

Priority Technology beats Maris-Tech on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Maris-Tech

Maris-Tech Ltd. designs and manufactures digital video and audio hardware and software solutions for the professionals, as well as the civilian and home security markets worldwide. The company offers intelligent video surveillance solutions, communication technology products, modular video encoding/decoding platform, ultra-low latency streaming solutions, dual channel low power encoder systems, multi channel encoding streaming and recording platform, miniature recording and streaming platforms, and video encoding and decoding platform. Its products are used in drone, robotic, defense, homeland security, HLS, intelligence gathering, autonomous vehicle, and space markets and applications. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Rehovot, Israel.

About Priority Technology

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. operates as a payment technology company in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMB) Payments, Business-To-Business (B2B) Payments, and Enterprise Payments. It offers SMB payments processing solutions for B2C transactions through independent sales organizations, financial institutions, independent software vendors, and other referral partners through its MX product suite, which includes MX Connect and MX Merchant products, such as MX Insights, MX Storefront, MX Retail, MX Invoice, MX B2B and ACH.com, and others, which provides flexible and customizable set of business applications that helps to manage critical business work functions and revenue performance to resellers and merchant clients using core payment processing. The company also offers CPX, a platform that offers accounts payable automation solutions, including virtual card, purchase card, ACH +, dynamic discounting, or check. In addition, it provides curated managed services; payment-adjacent technologies to facilitate the acceptance of electronic payments from customers; and Plastiq payables management software, which helps businesses in improving cash flow with instant access to working capital. Further, the company offers embedded finance and BaaS solutions to enterprise customers to modernize legacy platforms and accelerate software partners' strategies to monetize payments; and managed services solutions that provide audience-specific programs for institutional partners and other third parties; and consulting and development solutions. It serves SMB, and enterprises, as well as distribution partners, including retail and wholesale independent sales organizations, financial institutions, and independent software vendors. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.