Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE:DBD) and Cirata (OTCMKTS:WANSF) Head to Head Review

Cirata (OTCMKTS:WANSF) and Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE:DBD) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Cirata and Diebold Nixdorf, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cirata	0	0	0	0	0.00
Diebold Nixdorf	0	0	3	0	3.00

Diebold Nixdorf has a consensus target price of $100.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.86%. Given Diebold Nixdorf’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Diebold Nixdorf is more favorable than Cirata.

Risk & Volatility

Cirata has a beta of -5.73, indicating that its stock price is 673% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diebold Nixdorf has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Cirata and Diebold Nixdorf’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cirata	N/A	N/A	N/A
Diebold Nixdorf	2.49%	17.25%	4.98%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Cirata and Diebold Nixdorf”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cirata	$7.68 million	3.78	-$13.51 million	N/A	N/A
Diebold Nixdorf	$3.81 billion	0.77	$94.60 million	$2.59	32.48

Diebold Nixdorf has higher revenue and earnings than Cirata.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

97.0% of Diebold Nixdorf shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Diebold Nixdorf shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Diebold Nixdorf beats Cirata on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Cirata

Cirata plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development and provision of collaboration software in North America, Europe, China, and internationally. The company provides Data Migrator, an automated solution that moves on-premises HDFS data, Hive metadata, local filesystem, or cloud data sources to any cloud or on-premises environment; and Data Migrator for Hadoop, a cloud migration solution that automates the seamless transfer of HDFS data and Hive metadata to the cloud. It also offers Access Control Plus, an access control solution, that enables project administrators to manage the complexity of complete and proper authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ) configuration file generation; and Gerrit MultiSite, a development team collaboration solution, which enables replication of Gerrit server and packaged in a simple to deploy and maintain format. In addition, the company provides Git MultiSite and Subversion MultiSite Plus solutions enable distributed teams to collaborate as one with no downtime, no disruption, and consistent security policy enforcement across all locations. It offers its solutions for automotive, telecommunications, and financial service industries. The company was formerly known as WANdisco plc and changed its name to Cirata plc in October 2023. Cirata plc was incorporated in 2012 and is based in St. Helier, Jersey.

About Diebold Nixdorf

Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated engages in the automating, digitizing, and transforming the way people bank and shop worldwide. It operates through two segments, Banking and Retail. The company offers cash recyclers and dispensers, intelligent deposit terminals, teller automation tools, and kiosk technologies, as well as physical security solutions; and front-end applications for consumer connection points and back-end platforms that manage channel transactions, operations and integration, and facilitate omnichannel transactions, endpoint monitoring, remote asset management, customer marketing, merchandise management, and analytics. It also provides banking product-related services comprising proactive monitoring and rapid resolution of incidents through remote service capabilities or an on-site visit; first- and second-line maintenance, preventive maintenance, and on-demand services; managed and outsourcing services, such as business processes, solution management, upgrades, and transaction processing; and cash management services. In addition, the company offers DN Vynamic software suite to simplify and enhance the consumer experience; modular and integrated point of sale and self-checkout terminals; printers, scales, and mobile scanners; and banknote and coin processing systems, as well as ordering kiosks. Additionally, it provides retail customer's product-related services, such as on-demand and professional services; maintenance and availability services; implementation services; managed mobility services; monitoring and advanced analytics; and store life-cycle management services. The company was formerly known as Diebold, Incorporated and changed its name to Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated in December 2016. Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in North Canton, Ohio.