Head to Head Survey: Mobiquity Technologies (MOBQ) and Its Peers

Mobiquity Technologies (NASDAQ:MOBQ) is one of 32 publicly-traded companies in the “Advertising” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Mobiquity Technologies to similar companies based on the strength of its dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.

Risk & Volatility

Mobiquity Technologies has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mobiquity Technologies’ competitors have a beta of 1.08, meaning that their average stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Mobiquity Technologies and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mobiquity Technologies	$860,000.00	-$6.53 million	-0.74
Mobiquity Technologies Competitors	$1.14 billion	$226.72 million	-1.42

Mobiquity Technologies’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Mobiquity Technologies. Mobiquity Technologies is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

14.2% of Mobiquity Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.5% of shares of all “Advertising” companies are owned by institutional investors. 24.5% of Mobiquity Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.4% of shares of all “Advertising” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Mobiquity Technologies and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mobiquity Technologies	-591.12%	-282.65%	-147.69%
Mobiquity Technologies Competitors	-66.42%	-107.16%	-16.79%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Mobiquity Technologies and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mobiquity Technologies	0	0	0	0	N/A
Mobiquity Technologies Competitors	269	567	670	23	2.29

As a group, “Advertising” companies have a potential upside of 114.71%. Given Mobiquity Technologies’ competitors higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Mobiquity Technologies has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Summary

Mobiquity Technologies competitors beat Mobiquity Technologies on 7 of the 10 factors compared.

About Mobiquity Technologies

Mobiquity Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an advertising technology, data compliance, and intelligence company in the United States. It provides advertising technology operating system platform includes adserver, demand side platform, advertisement quality tools, analytics dashboard, engine, advertisement prediction and delivery tools, supply quality tools, private marketplace tools, audience and location targeting, reports, an advertisement software development kit, prebid adaptor, contextual targeting, identity graph capabilities, cookie syncing, and the updated version of a quality and security tools that blends artificial intelligence and machine learning-based optimization technology which automatically serves advertising and manages digital advertising inventory and campaigns. The company also offers data intelligence platform for providing precise data and insights on consumer's real-world behavior and trends for use in marketing and research; and MobiExchange is a data-focused technology solution that enables users to rapidly build actionable data and insights for its own use, providing out-of-the box private labeling, flexible branding, content management, user management, user communications, subscriptions, payment, invoices, reporting, gateways to third party platforms, and help desk solutions. In addition, it provides content publisher platform, a single-vendor ad tech operating system with tools for consent management, audience building, a direct advertising interface, and inventory enhancement, that allows publishers to better monetize their opt-in user data and advertising inventory. The company was formerly known as Ace Marketing & Promotions, Inc. and changed its name to Mobiquity Technologies, Inc. in September 2013. Mobiquity Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Shoreham, New York.