Reviewing Mobiquity Technologies (MOBQ) and The Competition

Mobiquity Technologies (NASDAQ:MOBQ) is one of 31 public companies in the “Advertising” industry, but how does it compare to its rivals? We will compare Mobiquity Technologies to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Mobiquity Technologies and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mobiquity Technologies	0	0	0	0	N/A
Mobiquity Technologies Competitors	266	482	646	22	2.30

As a group, “Advertising” companies have a potential upside of 84.45%. Given Mobiquity Technologies’ rivals higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Mobiquity Technologies has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Mobiquity Technologies and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mobiquity Technologies	$860,000.00	-$6.53 million	-0.50
Mobiquity Technologies Competitors	$1.18 billion	$240.53 million	-2.63

Mobiquity Technologies’ rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Mobiquity Technologies. Mobiquity Technologies is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

14.2% of Mobiquity Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.0% of shares of all “Advertising” companies are held by institutional investors. 24.5% of Mobiquity Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.6% of shares of all “Advertising” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Mobiquity Technologies and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mobiquity Technologies	-591.12%	-282.65%	-147.69%
Mobiquity Technologies Competitors	-69.69%	-112.48%	-17.37%

Risk and Volatility

Mobiquity Technologies has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mobiquity Technologies’ rivals have a beta of 1.12, indicating that their average stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Mobiquity Technologies rivals beat Mobiquity Technologies on 8 of the 10 factors compared.

About Mobiquity Technologies

Mobiquity Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an advertising technology, data compliance, and intelligence company in the United States. It provides advertising technology operating system platform includes adserver, demand side platform, advertisement quality tools, analytics dashboard, engine, advertisement prediction and delivery tools, supply quality tools, private marketplace tools, audience and location targeting, reports, an advertisement software development kit, prebid adaptor, contextual targeting, identity graph capabilities, cookie syncing, and the updated version of a quality and security tools that blends artificial intelligence and machine learning-based optimization technology which automatically serves advertising and manages digital advertising inventory and campaigns. The company also offers data intelligence platform for providing precise data and insights on consumer's real-world behavior and trends for use in marketing and research; and MobiExchange is a data-focused technology solution that enables users to rapidly build actionable data and insights for its own use, providing out-of-the box private labeling, flexible branding, content management, user management, user communications, subscriptions, payment, invoices, reporting, gateways to third party platforms, and help desk solutions. In addition, it provides content publisher platform, a single-vendor ad tech operating system with tools for consent management, audience building, a direct advertising interface, and inventory enhancement, that allows publishers to better monetize their opt-in user data and advertising inventory. The company was formerly known as Ace Marketing & Promotions, Inc. and changed its name to Mobiquity Technologies, Inc. in September 2013. Mobiquity Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Shoreham, New York.