WM Technology (NASDAQ:MAPS – Get Free Report) and Alarm.com (NASDAQ:ALRM – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
22.0% of WM Technology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.7% of Alarm.com shares are held by institutional investors. 41.3% of WM Technology shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of Alarm.com shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares WM Technology and Alarm.com’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| WM Technology | $215.53 million | 0.88 | -$115.99 million | ($1.23) | -1.03 |
| Alarm.com | $881.68 million | 3.89 | $81.04 million | $1.53 | 44.94 |
Profitability
This table compares WM Technology and Alarm.com’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| WM Technology | -56.88% | -25.02% | -15.37% |
| Alarm.com | 9.19% | 11.61% | 5.45% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for WM Technology and Alarm.com, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| WM Technology | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Alarm.com | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2.83 |
Alarm.com has a consensus target price of $68.83, indicating a potential upside of 0.11%. Given Alarm.com’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alarm.com is more favorable than WM Technology.
Volatility and Risk
WM Technology has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alarm.com has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alarm.com beats WM Technology on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About WM Technology
WM Technology, Inc. provides ecommerce and compliance software solutions to retailers and brands in cannabis market in the United States and internationally. The company offers Weedmaps marketplace that allows cannabis users to search for and browse cannabis products from retailers and brands, and reserve products from local retailers; and education and learning information to help newer consumers learn about the types of products to purchase. It also provides monthly subscription-based business software solutions, including WM Listings, WM Orders, WM Store, WM Connectors, and WM Insights as well as other add-on products, such as WM Ads, WM AdSuite, WM Customer Relationship Management, WM Dispatch, and WM Screens. WM Technology, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
About Alarm.com
Alarm.com Holdings, Inc. provides various Internet of Things (IoT) and solutions for residential, multi-family, small business, and enterprise commercial markets in North America and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Alarm.com and Other. It offers solutions to control and monitor security systems, as well as to IoT devices, including door locks, garage doors, thermostats, and video cameras; and video monitoring and analytics solutions, such as video analytics, escalated events, video doorbells, intelligent integration, live streaming, secure cloud storage, and video alerts. The company also provides scenes, video analytics triggers, thermostat schedules, responsive savings, precision comfort, energy usage monitoring, places feature, whole home water safety, and solar monitoring solutions, as well as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning monitoring services. In addition, it offers demand response programs, commercial grade video, commercial video analytics, access control, cell connectors, enterprise dashboard and multi-site management, energy savings, protection for valuables and inventory, temperature monitoring, and daily safeguard solutions. Further, the company provides a permission-based online portal that provides account management, sales, marketing, training, and support tools; a unified interface that displays key operational and customer experience indicators, including technician performance, system reliability and customer engagement metrics; installation and support services; MobileTech Application and Remote Toolkit; video health reports; smart gateway; AI-powered enhancements to professional monitoring and false alarm reduction; Web services and business intelligence; sales, marketing, and training services; and home builder programs. Additionally, it offers electric utility grid and water management, indoor gunshot detection, and health and wellness and data-rich emergency response solutions. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Tysons, Virginia.
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