Profitability
This table compares Astea International and AppTech Payments’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Astea International | -7.77% | -6.85% | -12.99% |
| AppTech Payments | -3,119.45% | -398.98% | -153.45% |
Volatility & Risk
Astea International has a beta of -0.3, indicating that its share price is 130% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AppTech Payments has a beta of -0.26, indicating that its share price is 126% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Astea International and AppTech Payments”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Astea International | $27.47 million | 1.69 | $360,000.00 | N/A | N/A |
| AppTech Payments | $276,000.00 | 43.06 | -$18.51 million | ($0.19) | -1.79 |
Astea International has higher revenue and earnings than AppTech Payments.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
5.2% of AppTech Payments shares are owned by institutional investors. 57.5% of Astea International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 37.9% of AppTech Payments shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Astea International beats AppTech Payments on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Astea International
Astea International Inc. develops, markets, and supports service management software solutions worldwide. It offers Astea Alliance, a service management software that addresses the service lifecycle applications, including lead generation, project quotation, service and billing, and asset retirement; and integrates and optimizes business processes for campaigns, call center, depot repair, field service, logistics, projects, and sales and order processing applications. The company also provides FieldCentrix Enterprise suite, a service management solution that runs on various mobile devices; and integrates with customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning applications. In addition, it supports deployments in on-premise, as well as cloud environments by leveraging a multi-tenant architecture; and provides infrastructure tools and services, as well as consulting, implementation, training, and maintenance services. The company's products are used in information technology, medical devices and diagnostic systems, industrial controls and instrumentation, retail/point-of-sale equipment, office automation equipment, imaging systems, fire and security, gaming/leisure equipment, facilities management, and telecommunications, and other related industries with equipment sales and service requirements. Astea International Inc. markets its products through a network of direct and indirect sales and services offices; and distributors consisting of value-added resellers, system integrators, and sales agents, as well as original equipment manufacturing partners. The company was formerly known as Applied System Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Astea International Inc. in 1992. Astea International Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania.
About AppTech Payments
AppTech Payments Corp., a financial technology company, provides electronic payment processing technologies and merchant services in the United States. Its merchant transaction services offer processing payments for credit and debit cards through point-of-sale equipment, e-commerce gateways, periodic automatic clearing house payments, and gift and loyalty programs. The company also offers integrated solutions for frictionless digital and mobile payment acceptance, as well as multi-use case, multi-channel, API-driven, and account-based issuer processing for card, digital tokens, and payment transfer transaction services; hosted ecommerce checkout, a flexible payment gateway; and text payment technology, alternative payment methods (APMs), and contactless payments. In addition, it provides FinZeo, a fintech platform. The company was formerly known as AppTech Corp. AppTech Payments Corp. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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