CXApp (NASDAQ:CXAI) vs. N-able (NYSE:NABL) Financial Contrast

N-able (NYSE:NABL) and CXApp (NASDAQ:CXAI) 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 risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
N-able	-1.99%	3.40%	1.96%
CXApp	-368.07%	-106.67%	-51.35%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for N-able and CXApp, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
N-able	3	2	3	0	2.00
CXApp	1	0	0	0	1.00

N-able currently has a consensus price target of $7.55, suggesting a potential upside of 85.28%. Given N-able’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe N-able is more favorable than CXApp.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

96.3% of N-able shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.4% of CXApp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of N-able shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of CXApp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares N-able and CXApp”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	1.50	-$17.03 million	($0.05)	-81.50
CXApp	$4.58 million	1.67	-$13.47 million	($0.58)	-0.19

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

Volatility and Risk

N-able has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CXApp has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

N-able beats CXApp on 9 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 CXApp

CXApp Inc. provides a workplace experience platform for enterprise customers. It offers CXApp, a software-as-a-service platform with native mapping, analytics, on-device positioning, and applications technologies for use in various applications, such as workplace experience, employee engagement, desk and meeting room reservations, workplace analytics, occupancy management, content delivery, corporate communications and notifications, event management, live indoor mapping, wayfinding, and navigation. The company was formerly known as KINS Technology Group Inc. and changed its name to CXApp Inc. in March 2023. The company is based in Palo Alto, California.