AMEN Properties (OTCMKTS:AMEN) versus Weibo (NASDAQ:WB) Head to Head Review

AMEN Properties (OTCMKTS:AMEN) and Weibo (NASDAQ:WB) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for AMEN Properties and Weibo, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AMEN Properties	0	0	0	0	0.00
Weibo	0	1	1	0	2.50

Weibo has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 27.39%. Given Weibo’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Weibo is more favorable than AMEN Properties.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares AMEN Properties and Weibo”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AMEN Properties	$4.08 million	6.14	$2.14 million	N/A	N/A
Weibo	$1.75 billion	1.53	$300.80 million	$1.76	6.24

Weibo has higher revenue and earnings than AMEN Properties.

Dividends

AMEN Properties pays an annual dividend of $30.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Weibo pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Weibo pays out 45.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Volatility & Risk

AMEN Properties has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Weibo has a beta of 0.13, meaning that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

68.8% of Weibo shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.3% of AMEN Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of Weibo shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares AMEN Properties and Weibo’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AMEN Properties	38.56%	18.48%	15.50%
Weibo	26.58%	11.79%	6.46%

Summary

Weibo beats AMEN Properties on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AMEN Properties

AMEN Properties, Inc. owns oil and gas royalty and working interests in various oil and gas properties in the United States. It holds interests in oil gas and gas royalties through its ownership of SFF Royalty, LLC; and 100% interests in SFF Production, LLC. The company was formerly known as Crosswalk.com, Inc. and changed its name to AMEN Properties, Inc. in October 2002. AMEN Properties, Inc. was incorporated in 1993 and is based in Richardson, Texas.

About Weibo

Weibo Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a social media platform for people to create, discover, and distribute content in the People’s Republic of China. It operates in two segments, Advertising and Marketing Services; and Value-Added Services. The company offers discovery products to help users discover content on its platform; self-expression products that enable its users to express themselves on its platform; and social products to promote social interaction between users on its platform. It also provides advertising and marketing solutions, such as social display advertisements; and promoted marketing offerings, such as Fans Headline and Weibo Express promoted feeds, as well as promoted trends and search products that appear alongside user’s trends discovery and search behaviors. In addition, the company offers products, such as trends, search, video/live streaming, and editing tools; content customization, copyright contents pooling, and user interaction development; and search list recommendation, trends list recommendation, and Weibo app opening advertisements. Further, it provides back-end management, traffic support, and product services for better displaying and promotion of its account and content; open application platform for other app developers that allows users to log into third-party applications with their Weibo account for sharing third-party content on its platform; and Weibo Wallet, a product that enables platform partners to conduct interest generation activities on Weibo, such as handing out red envelops and coupons. The company was formerly known as T.CN Corporation and changed its name to Weibo Corporation in 2012. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.