Head to Head Contrast: Tempus AI (NASDAQ:TEM) and Oblong (NYSE:OBLG)

Tempus AI (NASDAQ:TEM) and Oblong (NYSE:OBLG) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.

Profitability

This table compares Tempus AI and Oblong’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tempus AI	N/A	N/A	N/A
Oblong	-138.72%	-78.25%	-62.41%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for Tempus AI and Oblong, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tempus AI	0	1	9	0	2.90
Oblong	0	0	0	0	N/A

Tempus AI currently has a consensus price target of $45.56, indicating a potential downside of 7.74%. Given Tempus AI’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Tempus AI is more favorable than Oblong.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

2.0% of Oblong shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Oblong shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Tempus AI and Oblong”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tempus AI	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Oblong	$3.05 million	32.89	-$4.38 million	N/A	N/A

Tempus AI has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Oblong.

Summary

Tempus AI beats Oblong on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Tempus AI

Tempus AI Inc. is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence principally in healthcare. The company provides AI-enabled precision medicine solutions to physicians to deliver personalized patient care and in parallel facilitates discovery, development and delivery of optimal therapeutics. Tempus AI Inc. is based in CHICAGO.

About Oblong

Oblong, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides multi-stream collaboration technologies and managed services for video collaboration and network applications in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Collaboration Products and Managed Services. Its flagship product is Mezzanine that enables visual collaboration across multi-users, multi-screens, multi-devices, and multi-locations for video telepresence, laptop and application sharing, and whiteboard sharing and slides applications. The company also provides managed videoconferencing services; and remote service management, which offers an overlay to enterprise information technology and channel partner support organizations, as well as support and management services for customer video environments. In addition, it provides network solutions, including Cloud Connect: Video that allows its customers to outsource the management of their video traffic to them and provides the customer's office locations with a secure, dedicated video network connection to the Oblong Cloud for video communications; Cloud Connect: Converge, which offers customized multiprotocol label switching solutions; and Cloud Connect: Cross Connect that allows the customer to leverage existing carrier for the extension of a Layer 2 private line to its data center. The company serves a range of industries comprising aerospace, consulting, executive search, broadcast media, legal, insurance, technology, financial services, education, healthcare, real estate, retail, construction, hospitality, and others, as well as government sector. Oblong, Inc. is based in Denver, Colorado.