Comparing TaskUs (NASDAQ:TASK) and Vertiv (NYSE:VRT)

TaskUs (NASDAQ:TASK) and Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares TaskUs and Vertiv”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
TaskUs	$1.18 billion	0.49	$102.28 million	$1.11	5.77
Vertiv	$10.23 billion	8.75	$1.33 billion	$3.41	68.64

Vertiv has higher revenue and earnings than TaskUs. TaskUs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vertiv, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

TaskUs has a beta of 2.11, indicating that its share price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vertiv has a beta of 2.02, indicating that its share price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares TaskUs and Vertiv’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TaskUs	8.64%	22.52%	12.29%
Vertiv	13.03%	49.55%	15.30%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for TaskUs and Vertiv, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TaskUs	1	6	1	1	2.22
Vertiv	1	2	20	1	2.88

TaskUs currently has a consensus target price of $14.25, indicating a potential upside of 122.66%. Vertiv has a consensus target price of $235.26, indicating a potential upside of 0.52%. Given TaskUs’ higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe TaskUs is more favorable than Vertiv.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

44.6% of TaskUs shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.9% of Vertiv shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.6% of TaskUs shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Vertiv shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Vertiv beats TaskUs on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About TaskUs

TaskUs, Inc. provides digital outsourcing services for companies in Philippines, the United States, India, and internationally. It offers digital customer experience that consists of omni-channel customer care services primarily delivered through non-voice digital channels; and other solutions, including experience and customer care services for new product or market launches, and customer acquisition solutions. The company also provides trust and safety solutions, such as review and disposition of user and advertiser generated visual, text, and audio content, which include removal or labeling of policy violating, and offensive or misleading content, as well as risk management, compliance, identity management, and fraud services; and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that consist of data labeling, annotation, context relevance, and transcription services for training and tuning machine learning algorithms that enables to develop AI systems. It serves clients in various industry segments comprising e-commerce, FinTech, food delivery and ride sharing, gaming, technology, HealthTech, social media, and streaming media. The company was formerly known as TU TopCo, Inc. and changed its name to TaskUs, Inc. in December 2020. TaskUs, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New Braunfels, Texas.

About Vertiv

Vertiv Holdings Co, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and services critical digital infrastructure technologies and life cycle services for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It offers AC and DC power management products, switchgear and busbar products, thermal management products, integrated rack systems, modular solutions, and management systems for monitoring and controlling digital infrastructure that are integral to the technologies used for various services, including e-commerce, online banking, file sharing, video on-demand, energy storage, wireless communications, Internet of Things, and online gaming. The company also provides lifecycle management services, predictive analytics, and professional services for deploying, maintaining, and optimizing its products and their related systems; and preventative maintenance, acceptance testing, engineering and consulting, performance assessments, remote monitoring, training, spare parts, and digital critical infrastructure software services. It offers its products primarily under the Vertiv, Liebert, NetSure, Geist, E&I, Powerbar, and Avocent brands. The company serves cloud services, financial services, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, energy, education, government, social media, and retail industries through a network of direct sales professionals, independent sales representatives, channel partners, and original equipment manufacturers. Vertiv Holdings Co is headquartered in Westerville, Ohio.