Comparing Data443 Risk Mitigation (OTCMKTS:ATDSD) and AppTech Payments (NASDAQ:APCX)

Profitability

This table compares AppTech Payments and Data443 Risk Mitigation’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AppTech Payments	-3,119.45%	-398.98%	-153.45%
Data443 Risk Mitigation	-186.45%	N/A	-259.30%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares AppTech Payments and Data443 Risk Mitigation”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AppTech Payments	$276,000.00	51.30	-$18.51 million	($0.19)	-2.13
Data443 Risk Mitigation	$2.63 million	0.00	-$9.71 million	($26.88)	0.00

Data443 Risk Mitigation has higher revenue and earnings than AppTech Payments. AppTech Payments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Data443 Risk Mitigation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

5.2% of AppTech Payments shares are held by institutional investors. 37.9% of AppTech Payments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Data443 Risk Mitigation shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

AppTech Payments has a beta of -0.13, meaning that its share price is 113% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Data443 Risk Mitigation has a beta of -4.77, meaning that its share price is 577% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

AppTech Payments beats Data443 Risk Mitigation on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AppTech Payments

AppTech Payments Corp., a financial technology company, provides electronic payment processing technologies and merchant services in the United States. Its merchant transaction services offer processing payments for credit and debit cards through point-of-sale equipment, e-commerce gateways, periodic automatic clearing house payments, and gift and loyalty programs. The company also offers integrated solutions for frictionless digital and mobile payment acceptance, as well as multi-use case, multi-channel, API-driven, and account-based issuer processing for card, digital tokens, and payment transfer transaction services; hosted ecommerce checkout, a flexible payment gateway; and text payment technology, alternative payment methods (APMs), and contactless payments. In addition, it provides FinZeo, a fintech platform. The company was formerly known as AppTech Corp. AppTech Payments Corp. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

About Data443 Risk Mitigation

Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. provides data security and privacy management solutions in the United States. The company offers Ransomware Recovery Manager to recover a workstation upon infection to the last known business-operable state; Data Identification Manager, a data classification and governance technology that performs enhanced data discovery and content search of structured and unstructured data; Data Archive Manager, which provides enterprise data retention management and archiving solution; and Sensitive Content Manager, a cloud-based platform for the managing, protecting, and distributing digital content to the desktop and mobile devices. It also provides Data Placement Manager, a data transport, transformation, and delivery product; Access Control Manager that enables access controls across various platforms at scale for internal client systems and commercial public cloud platforms; Blockchain Protection Manager, which protects blockchain transactions from inadvertent disclosure and data leaks; and Global Privacy Manager, a privacy compliance and consumer loss mitigation platform. In addition, the company offers IntellyWP, a product for enhancing the user experience for content management platform; Chat History Scanner, which scans chat messages for compliance, security, personally identifiable information, personal information, payment card industry information, and custom keywords; and GDPR Framework, CCPA Framework, and LGPD Framework WordPress Plugins that enables organizations comply with European, California, and Brazilian privacy rules and regulations. It serves financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology, and telecommunications industries. The company was formerly known as LandStar, Inc. and changed its name to Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. in October 2017. Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.