ZW Data Action Technologies (NASDAQ:CNET) vs. Stran & Company, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWAG) Financial Review

Stran & Company, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWAG) and ZW Data Action Technologies (NASDAQ:CNET) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Stran & Company, Inc. and ZW Data Action Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Stran & Company, Inc.	1	0	0	0	1.00
ZW Data Action Technologies	1	0	0	0	1.00

Profitability

This table compares Stran & Company, Inc. and ZW Data Action Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Stran & Company, Inc.	-1.38%	-5.05%	-2.88%
ZW Data Action Technologies	-33.25%	-59.11%	-21.51%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

56.4% of Stran & Company, Inc. shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of ZW Data Action Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 49.6% of Stran & Company, Inc. shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of ZW Data Action Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

Stran & Company, Inc. has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ZW Data Action Technologies has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Stran & Company, Inc. and ZW Data Action Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Stran & Company, Inc.	$82.65 million	0.46	-$4.14 million	($0.09)	-23.11
ZW Data Action Technologies	$15.44 million	0.29	-$3.76 million	($0.74)	-1.83

ZW Data Action Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stran & Company, Inc.. Stran & Company, Inc. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ZW Data Action Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Stran & Company, Inc. beats ZW Data Action Technologies on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Stran & Company, Inc.

Stran & Co., Inc. engages in the provision of promotional marketing and branded merchandise services. It offers promotional product, custom manufacturing, custom packaging, warehousing, and program management. The company was founded by Andrew Shape and Andrew Stranberg in 1994 and is headquartered in Quincy, MA.

About ZW Data Action Technologies

ZW Data Action Technologies Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers omni-channel advertising, precision marketing, and data analysis management systems in the People’s Republic of China. The company offers Internet advertising, precision marketing, and related data services to small and medium enterprises through its Internet portals, including 28.com and liansuo.com that provide advertisers with tools to build sales channels in the form of franchisees, sales agents, distributors, and/or resellers. It also develops and operates blockchain technology-based products and services, as well as blockchain-based SaaS services that provides one-stop blockchain-powered enterprise management solutions in forms of NFT generations, data record, share, and storage module subscriptions, etc. In addition, the company offers other e-commerce O2O advertising, and marketing and related value-added technical services. Additionally, it offers online-content production, distribution, promotion, and live streamer training and management services. The company was formerly known as ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to ZW Data Action Technologies Inc. in October 2020. Data Action Technologies Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.