Reviewing Robot Consulting (NASDAQ:LAWR) and Bigcommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC)

Bigcommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC) and Robot Consulting (NASDAQ:LAWR) are both small-cap services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Bigcommerce and Robot Consulting, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bigcommerce	0	0	1	0	3.00
Robot Consulting	1	0	0	0	1.00

Bigcommerce presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 270.37%. Given Bigcommerce’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Bigcommerce is more favorable than Robot Consulting.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

79.2% of Bigcommerce shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.0% of Bigcommerce shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Bigcommerce and Robot Consulting’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bigcommerce	N/A	N/A	N/A
Robot Consulting	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Bigcommerce and Robot Consulting”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bigcommerce	$334.94 million	0.71	-$17.62 million	($0.22)	-13.50
Robot Consulting	$4.46 million	35.49	-$3.53 million	N/A	N/A

Robot Consulting has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bigcommerce.

Summary

Bigcommerce beats Robot Consulting on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bigcommerce

BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service platform for small businesses, mid-markets, and large enterprises in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company’s platform provides various services for launching and scaling e-commerce operation, including store design, catalog management, hosting, checkout, order management, reporting, and pre-integrations. As of December 31, 2021, it served approximately 60,000 online stores across industries. BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

About Robot Consulting

Robot Consulting Co. Ltd. is a platform service provider focusing on human resource solutions with an intention to expand into legal technology and the metaverse. The Company’s major product, Labor Robot, is a cloud-based human resource management system which helps users track employee attendance, manage sales orders and journalize accounting items. Robot Consulting Co. Ltd. is based in Tokyo, Japan.