BOX (NYSE:BOX) vs. Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ:JG) Head-To-Head Survey

BOX (NYSE:BOX) and Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ:JG) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk and valuation.

Risk & Volatility

BOX has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aurora Mobile has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares BOX and Aurora Mobile’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BOX	9.80%	-23.61%	4.17%
Aurora Mobile	0.14%	0.53%	0.13%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

86.7% of BOX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Aurora Mobile shares are held by institutional investors. 3.9% of BOX shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.2% of Aurora Mobile shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations for BOX and Aurora Mobile, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BOX	2	4	4	0	2.20
Aurora Mobile	0	1	0	0	2.00

BOX presently has a consensus target price of $35.57, indicating a potential upside of 44.16%. Given BOX’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe BOX is more favorable than Aurora Mobile.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BOX and Aurora Mobile”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BOX	$1.18 billion	2.90	$115.38 million	$0.59	41.82
Aurora Mobile	$53.60 million	0.70	$60,000.00	$0.03	209.17

BOX has higher revenue and earnings than Aurora Mobile. BOX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aurora Mobile, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

BOX beats Aurora Mobile on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BOX

Box, Inc. engages in the provision of an enterprise content platform that enables organizations to securely manage enterprise content while allowing easy, secure access and sharing of this content from anywhere, on any device. Its products include cloud content management, IT and admin controls, Box Governance, Box Zones, Box Relay, Box Shuttle, and Box KeySafe. The company was founded by Aaron Levie, Dylan Smith, Jeff Queisser, and Sam Ghods in March 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

About Aurora Mobile

Aurora Mobile Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of developer services in China. The company provides push notification, instant messaging, analytics, sharing and short message service, one-click verification, and other services. The company offers real-time market intelligence solutions, such as product iApp, which provides analysis and statistical results on the usage and trends of mobile apps to investment funds and corporations. It also provides financial risk management solutions to assist financial institutions, licensed lenders, and credit card companies in making informed lending and credit decisions; and location-based intelligence services. In addition, the company offers application programming interfaces that create connectivity and automate the process of message exchange between the mobile apps and its backend network; an interactive web-based service dashboard that allows app developers to utilize and monitor its services through controls on an ongoing basis; and value added services, such as Advertisement SAAS, a data management platform service, which provides tagged and de-identified population data package; JG Alliance, an integrated marketing campaign services to advertising customers; and AD Mediation Platform to help mobile app developers access other mainstream advertising platforms. It primarily serves mobile app developers in a range of industries, such as media, entertainment, gaming, financial services, tourism, ecommerce, education, and healthcare. Aurora Mobile Limited was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.