Xperi (NYSE:XPER) versus BOX (NYSE:BOX) Financial Analysis

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Xperi and BOX, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Xperi	1	1	2	0	2.25
BOX	1	4	3	0	2.25

Xperi currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 109.36%. BOX has a consensus target price of $37.80, indicating a potential upside of 4.07%. Given Xperi’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Xperi is more favorable than BOX.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Xperi	$448.11 million	0.57	-$56.34 million	($0.70)	-7.51
BOX	$1.18 billion	4.23	$115.38 million	$0.69	52.64

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Xperi	-7.12%	4.04%	2.72%
BOX	10.59%	-20.97%	4.47%

Volatility & Risk

Xperi has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BOX has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

94.3% of Xperi shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of BOX shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Xperi shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of BOX shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

BOX beats Xperi on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Xperi

Xperi Holding Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a consumer and entertainment product/solutions licensing company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Product, and Intellectual Property Licensing. The company invents, develops, and delivers various technologies. It licenses audio, digital radio, imaging, edge-based machine learning, and multi-channel video user experience solutions to consumer electronics customers, automotive manufacturers, or supply chain partners. The company also provides licensing to multichannel video programming distributors, OTT video service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers, social media, and other new media companies in media industry; and memory, sensors, RF component, and foundry companies in semiconductor industry. It provides its technologies under the DTS, HD Radio, IMAX Enhanced, Invensas, TiVo, and Perceive brands. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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.