Contrasting Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) and Ebang International (NASDAQ:EBON)

Ebang International (NASDAQ:EBON) and Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

1.1% of Ebang International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of Seagate Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.4% of Ebang International shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Seagate Technology shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Ebang International and Seagate Technology, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ebang International	1	0	0	0	1.00
Seagate Technology	0	4	22	1	2.89

Seagate Technology has a consensus target price of $986.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.83%. Given Seagate Technology’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Seagate Technology is more favorable than Ebang International.

Risk and Volatility

Ebang International has a beta of 3, meaning that its stock price is 200% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seagate Technology has a beta of 2.06, meaning that its stock price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Ebang International and Seagate Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ebang International	N/A	N/A	N/A
Seagate Technology	26.11%	369.98%	37.58%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Ebang International and Seagate Technology”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ebang International	$6.88 million	2.19	-$14.09 million	N/A	N/A
Seagate Technology	$12.20 billion	15.42	$3.18 billion	$13.88	59.78

Seagate Technology has higher revenue and earnings than Ebang International.

Summary

Seagate Technology beats Ebang International on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ebang International

Ebang International Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the research, design, and development of application-specific integrated circuit chips and manufacture of Bitcoin mining machines under the Ebit brand in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, the Bahamas, and internationally. It also provides mining machine hosting services; and engages in the development of proprietary cryptocurrency exchange platform. In addition, the company offers fiber-optic communication access devices, including multiprotocol label switching fiber-optic access network devices, multi-service access platform integrated business access devices, and wavelength-division multiplexing fiber-optic devices; and enterprise convergent terminal products, which consists gigabit passive optical network, Fiber to the Room products, passive optical network converged gateways, enterprise cloud gateway devices, industrial Internet of Things access devices, and business enterprise smart wireless access devices. It serves the blockchain and telecommunications industries. The company also operates a cross-border payment and foreign exchange platform. It sells its blockchain products directly, as well as through its website; and telecommunication products under the EBANG brand name primarily through supplier contracts. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.

About Seagate Technology

Seagate Technology Holdings plc provides data storage technology and solutions in Singapore, the United States, the Netherlands, and internationally. It provides mass capacity storage products, including enterprise nearline hard disk drives (HDDs), enterprise nearline solid state drives (SSDs), enterprise nearline systems, video and image HDDs, and network-attached storage drives. The company also offers legacy applications comprising Mission Critical HDDs and SSDs; external storage solutions under the Seagate Ultra Touch, One Touch, and Expansion product lines, as well as under the LaCie brand name; desktop drives; notebook drives, DVR HDDs, and gaming SSDs. In addition, it provides Lyve edge-to-cloud mass capacity platform. The company sells its products primarily to OEMs, distributors, and retailers. Seagate Technology Holdings plc was founded in 1978 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.