N-able (NYSE:NABL – Get Free Report) and AiRWA (NASDAQ:YYAI – Get Free Report) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
96.3% of N-able shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.0% of AiRWA shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of N-able shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of AiRWA shares are held 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.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares N-able and AiRWA”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| N-able | $511.43 million | 1.60 | -$18.82 million | ($0.02) | -216.75 |
| AiRWA | $25.81 million | 0.00 | -$17.56 million | ($89.63) | -0.01 |
AiRWA has lower revenue, but higher earnings than N-able. N-able is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AiRWA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares N-able and AiRWA’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| N-able | -0.88% | 3.55% | 2.04% |
| AiRWA | -43.02% | -11.11% | -9.20% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current recommendations for N-able and AiRWA, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| N-able | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
| AiRWA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
N-able presently has a consensus price target of $5.08, indicating a potential upside of 17.19%. Given N-able’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe N-able is more favorable than AiRWA.
Risk and Volatility
N-able has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AiRWA has a beta of -1.72, indicating that its share price is 272% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
N-able beats AiRWA on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About N-able
N-able, Inc. provides cloud-based software solutions for managed service providers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company's solutions enable MSPs to support digital transformation and growth within small and medium-sized enterprises. It provides software platform designed to be an integrated, enterprise-grade solution that serves as an operating system for its MSP partners and scales as their businesses grow. In addition, the company offers remote monitoring and management solutions provide MSP partners with visibility and insights into the availability and performance of their customers' networks, infrastructure, devices and applications through a centralized dashboard; data protection as-a-service solutions, such as backup and disaster recovery for servers, virtual machines, workstations, files, data, and key cloud-based applications, as well as multi-tenant platform and secure remote delivery architecture. Further, it offers security services through patch management, endpoint security, managed detection and response, web protection, e-mail security, and archiving and vulnerability assessment solutions. Additionally, the company engages in professional services automation, automation and scripting management, password management policies and reporting, and analytics. N-able, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
About AiRWA
Connexa Sports Technologies Inc. engages in the sports equipment and technology business in the United States. The company offers Slinger Launcher, a portable padel tennis ball launcher and pickleball launcher; and Slinger Bag Launcher, a ball launcher built into transport wheeled trolley bag. It also provides Gameface, AI technology and performance analytics for sports. Connexa Sports Technologies Inc. is based in Windsor Mill, Maryland.
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