Xperi (NYSE:XPER – Get Free Report) and Braze (NASDAQ:BRZE – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Profitability
This table compares Xperi and Braze’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% |
| Braze | -13.55% | -16.11% | -8.86% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings for Xperi and Braze, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Xperi | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.25 |
| Braze | 1 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 2.86 |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
94.3% of Xperi shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Braze shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Xperi shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Braze shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Risk and Volatility
Xperi has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Braze has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Xperi and Braze”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Xperi | $448.11 million | 0.59 | -$56.34 million | ($0.70) | -7.76 |
| Braze | $738.18 million | 3.91 | -$131.29 million | ($1.03) | -24.68 |
Xperi has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Braze. Braze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Xperi, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Xperi beats Braze on 9 of the 14 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 Braze
Braze, Inc. operates a customer engagement platform that provides interactions between consumers and brands worldwide. The company offers Braze software development kits that automatically manage data ingestion and deliver mobile and web notifications, in-application/in-browser interstitial messages, and content cards; REST API that can be used to import or export data or to trigger workflows between Braze and brands' existing technology stacks; Partner Data Integrations, which allow brands to sync user cohorts from partners; Data Transformation, in which brands can programmatically sync and transform user data; and Braze Cloud Data Ingestion that enables brands to harness their customer data. It also offers classification products, including segmentation that can define reusable segments of consumers based upon attributes, events, or predictive propensity scores; segment insights, which allows customers to analyze how segments are performing relative to each other across a set of pre-selected key performance indicators; and predictive suite that allows customers to identify groups of consumers that are of critical business value. In addition, the company provides Canvas, an orchestration tool that allows customers to create journeys, mapping out multi-steps, and cross-channel messaging experiences; campaigns, which allows customers to send one set of single-channel or multi-channel messages to be delivered to customers in a particular user segment; event and API triggering; marketing pressure management; and reporting and analytics. Further, it offers personalization products, such as liquid templating platform, connected content platform, content blocks, intelligent timing and channel, personalized variant, and AI item recommendations, and catalogs; and action products. The company was formerly known as Appboy, Inc. and changed its name to Braze, Inc. in November 2017. Braze, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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