Currenc Group (NASDAQ:CURR – Get Free Report) and OSR (NASDAQ:OSRH – Get Free Report) are both small-cap services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and dividends.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Currenc Group and OSR, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Currenc Group | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2.33 |
| OSR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Currenc Group currently has a consensus price target of $3.50, indicating a potential upside of 77.66%. Given Currenc Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Currenc Group is more favorable than OSR.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Currenc Group | $46.44 million | 3.23 | -$39.47 million | ($0.88) | -2.24 |
| OSR | N/A | N/A | -$2.41 million | ($1.12) | -0.44 |
OSR has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Currenc Group. Currenc Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OSR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Currenc Group and OSR’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Currenc Group | -84.72% | N/A | -34.02% |
| OSR | N/A | -6.66% | -4.90% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
56.0% of Currenc Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.3% of OSR shares are held by institutional investors. 43.3% of Currenc Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 60.6% of OSR shares are held by company 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.
Risk & Volatility
Currenc Group has a beta of 0.08, suggesting that its stock price is 92% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OSR has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Currenc Group beats OSR on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Currenc Group
Currenc Group, Inc. engages in operating a fintech banking platform. It operates through the following segments: Remittance Services, Sales of Airtime, and Other Services. The company is headquartered in Singapore.
About OSR
OSR Holdings leverages its international network of partners in the US, Europe, and South Korea to market and license its pipeline of proprietary platform technologies for broad application to efficient clinical trial programs, with the ultimate goal of addressing unmet medical needs. We partner with biotherapeutics companies with innovative and proprietary drug R&D “platform technologies” versus “assets only” companies, whose commercial viability is heavily dependent on positive results for individual treatment modalities in extremely rigorous and time consuming clinical trials. We focus on value creation through investments and collaborations with US and EU biotech companies, with the strategic goal of expansion into South Korea (specifically) and Asia (generally). OSR Holdings is headquartered in Paju, South Korea.
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