Eightco (NASDAQ:OCTO) & N-able (NYSE:NABL) Critical Contrast

N-able (NYSE:NABL) and Eightco (NASDAQ:OCTO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares N-able and Eightco”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
N-able	$511.43 million	1.74	-$17.03 million	($0.09)	-53.06
Eightco	$43.87 million	0.08	$710,000.00	($3.02)	-0.40

Eightco has lower revenue, but higher earnings than N-able. N-able is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Eightco, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares N-able and Eightco’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
N-able	-3.33%	3.17%	1.83%
Eightco	-21.43%	-91.96%	-19.64%

Volatility & Risk

N-able has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eightco has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for N-able and Eightco, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
N-able	1	3	4	0	2.38
Eightco	0	0	0	0	0.00

N-able currently has a consensus price target of $7.75, indicating a potential upside of 62.30%. Given N-able’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe N-able is more favorable than Eightco.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

96.4% of N-able shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.9% of Eightco shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of N-able shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of Eightco shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

N-able beats Eightco on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About N-able

N-able, Inc. provides cloud-based software solutions for managed service providers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company's solutions enable MSPs to support digital transformation and growth within small and medium-sized enterprises. It provides software platform designed to be an integrated, enterprise-grade solution that serves as an operating system for its MSP partners and scales as their businesses grow. In addition, the company offers remote monitoring and management solutions provide MSP partners with visibility and insights into the availability and performance of their customers' networks, infrastructure, devices and applications through a centralized dashboard; data protection as-a-service solutions, such as backup and disaster recovery for servers, virtual machines, workstations, files, data, and key cloud-based applications, as well as multi-tenant platform and secure remote delivery architecture. Further, it offers security services through patch management, endpoint security, managed detection and response, web protection, e-mail security, and archiving and vulnerability assessment solutions. Additionally, the company engages in professional services automation, automation and scripting management, password management policies and reporting, and analytics. N-able, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

About Eightco

Eightco Holdings Inc. provides inventory management and corrugated custom packaging solutions in North America and Europe. It manufactures and sells custom packaging solutions for a various product; and provides and resells bitcoin mining equipment and co-location services. The company was formerly known as Cryptyde, Inc. and changed its name to Eightco Holdings Inc. in April 2023. Eightco Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 1966 and is headquartered in Easton, Pennsylvania.