Contrasting Atlas Technical Consultants (NASDAQ:ATCX) & Collective Audience (NASDAQ:CAUD)

Atlas Technical Consultants (NASDAQ:ATCX) and Collective Audience (NASDAQ:CAUD) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Atlas Technical Consultants and Collective Audience, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Atlas Technical Consultants	1	0	2	0	2.33
Collective Audience	0	0	0	0	0.00

Atlas Technical Consultants presently has a consensus price target of $27.88, suggesting a potential upside of 428.94%. Given Atlas Technical Consultants’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Atlas Technical Consultants is more favorable than Collective Audience.

Risk and Volatility

Atlas Technical Consultants has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Collective Audience has a beta of 4.13, indicating that its share price is 313% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Atlas Technical Consultants and Collective Audience’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atlas Technical Consultants	-1.24%	-13.06%	3.37%
Collective Audience	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Atlas Technical Consultants and Collective Audience”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Atlas Technical Consultants	$604.77 million	0.35	-$7.51 million	($0.22)	-23.95
Collective Audience	$12.14 million	0.02	-$4.57 million	($0.09)	-0.11

Collective Audience has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Atlas Technical Consultants. Atlas Technical Consultants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Collective Audience, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

28.1% of Atlas Technical Consultants shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.8% of Collective Audience shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of Atlas Technical Consultants shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 58.0% of Collective Audience shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Collective Audience beats Atlas Technical Consultants on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Atlas Technical Consultants

Atlas Technical Consultants, Inc. provides professional testing, inspection, engineering, environmental, and program management and consulting services in the United States. The company provides a range of technical services that helps its clients test, inspect, plan, design, certify, and manage various projects across various end markets. It offers testing, inspection, and certification services, such as construction materials testing; non-destructive testing and evaluations, materials testing and inspection, laboratory, and geophysics; construction quality assurance; owner verification and inspection; forensic and structural investigations; and materials laboratory services. The company also provides environmental services, including environmental permitting, compliance assistance, and auditing and compliance management system implementation; air quality; water, hazardous material permitting, and registration; underground storage tank management; leak detection and repair program management; water resource management; industrial hygiene and building science; and disaster response and recovery. In addition, it offers engineering and design services comprising civil site, transportation, and geotechnical engineering; hydrogeology; water/wastewater; solid waste/landfill; land acquisition; subsurface utility engineering; surveying and mapping; and geographic information system asset inventory and assessments. Further, the company offers program management/construction management/quality management services consisting of programmatic planning and phasing; contract document preparation; bid evaluation and award analysis; alternative/value engineering; project estimating and scheduling; project cost/schedule control; contract administration; project management; community relations/affairs; asset management; construction management; quality management and assurance; and construction engineering and inspection. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

About Collective Audience

Collective Audience, Inc. provides e-commerce and digital consumer acquisition solutions in the United States. Its digital marketing business enables brands and agencies to advertise across digital media and connected TV platforms. The company is headquartered in New York, New York. Collective Audience, Inc. is a subsidiary of Logiq, Inc.