Contrasting Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) & CXApp (NASDAQ:CXAI)

CXApp (NASDAQ:CXAI) and Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

14.4% of CXApp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.6% of Palantir Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of CXApp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Palantir Technologies shares are owned by company 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for CXApp and Palantir Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CXApp	1	0	0	0	1.00
Palantir Technologies	3	10	23	1	2.59

Palantir Technologies has a consensus price target of $201.61, suggesting a potential upside of 0.55%. Given Palantir Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Palantir Technologies is more favorable than CXApp.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares CXApp and Palantir Technologies”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CXApp	$4.58 million	0.99	-$13.47 million	($26.00)	-0.07
Palantir Technologies	$4.48 billion	107.66	$1.63 billion	$1.17	171.37

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

Profitability

This table compares CXApp and Palantir Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CXApp	-446.46%	-135.04%	-65.41%
Palantir Technologies	49.01%	30.57%	25.64%

Volatility and Risk

CXApp has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Palantir Technologies has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Palantir Technologies beats CXApp on 15 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CXApp

CXApp Inc. provides a workplace experience platform for enterprise customers. It offers CXApp, a software-as-a-service platform with native mapping, analytics, on-device positioning, and applications technologies for use in various applications, such as workplace experience, employee engagement, desk and meeting room reservations, workplace analytics, occupancy management, content delivery, corporate communications and notifications, event management, live indoor mapping, wayfinding, and navigation. The company was formerly known as KINS Technology Group Inc. and changed its name to CXApp Inc. in March 2023. The company is based in Palo Alto, California.

About Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies, Inc. engages in the business of building and deploying software platforms that serve as the central operating systems for its customers. It operates under the Commercial and Government segments. The Commercial segment focuses on customers working in non-government industries. The Government segment is involved in providing services to customers that are the United States government and non-United States government agencies. The company was founded by Alexander Ceadmon Karp, Peter Andreas Thiel, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan Dale Gettings in 2003 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.