Critical Review: Zenvia (NASDAQ:ZENV) & SS Innovations International (NASDAQ:SSII)

SS Innovations International (NASDAQ:SSII) and Zenvia (NASDAQ:ZENV) 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 institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for SS Innovations International and Zenvia, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SS Innovations International	1	0	0	0	1.00
Zenvia	1	0	0	0	1.00

Profitability

This table compares SS Innovations International and Zenvia’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SS Innovations International	-32.10%	-34.13%	-18.87%
Zenvia	-10.62%	-14.36%	-6.52%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

49.3% of Zenvia shares are held by institutional investors. 78.4% of Zenvia shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares SS Innovations International and Zenvia”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SS Innovations International	$20.65 million	35.67	-$19.15 million	($0.05)	-75.80
Zenvia	$177.97 million	0.25	-$28.67 million	($0.40)	-2.13

SS Innovations International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Zenvia. SS Innovations International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zenvia, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Zenvia beats SS Innovations International on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SS Innovations International

AVRA Medical Robotics, Inc. develops and manufactures medical surgical devices. The company has a research agreement with the University of Central Florida to develop navigation and control technologies with applications in medical robotics. The company was formerly known as AVRA Surgical Microsystems, Inc. and changed its name to AVRA Medical Robotics, Inc. in November 2015. AVRA Medical Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Orlando, Florida.

About Zenvia

Zenvia Inc. provides customer experience communications platform which empowers businesses to create unique journeys for their end-customers along their life cycle across range of B2C verticals. Zenvia Inc. is based in S?O PAULO.