BigCommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC – Get Free Report) and iCoreConnect (NASDAQ:ICCT – Get Free Report) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
Profitability
This table compares BigCommerce and iCoreConnect’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BigCommerce | -12.68% | -82.39% | -4.57% |
| iCoreConnect | -260.79% | -614.22% | -152.86% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for BigCommerce and iCoreConnect, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BigCommerce | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2.13 |
| iCoreConnect | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Volatility & Risk
BigCommerce has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iCoreConnect has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
79.2% of BigCommerce shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of iCoreConnect shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.1% of BigCommerce shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 59.4% of iCoreConnect shares are owned by 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.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares BigCommerce and iCoreConnect”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BigCommerce | $309.39 million | 1.57 | -$64.67 million | ($0.54) | -11.54 |
| iCoreConnect | $8.15 million | 0.26 | -$15.55 million | ($3.09) | -0.06 |
iCoreConnect has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BigCommerce. BigCommerce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iCoreConnect, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BigCommerce beats iCoreConnect on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About BigCommerce
BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service platform for enterprises, small businesses, and mid-markets in the United States, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the AsiaPacific. The company provides a platform for launching and scaling an ecommerce operation, including store design, catalog management, hosting, checkout, order management, reporting, and pre-integration into third-party services. It serves stores in various sizes, product categories, and purchase types, such as business-to-business and business-to-consumer. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
About iCoreConnect
iCoreConnect Inc., a cloud-based software and technology company, provides Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) in the United States. The company’s products include iCoreRx, a HIPAA compliant electronic prescription software; iCorePDMP, a solution that checks the patient’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) history before prescribing controlled substances; iCoreVerify and iCoreVerify+, a HIPAA compliant SaaS solution that automatically retrieves a patients insurance eligibility breakdown to verify their benefits in advance of their appointment and on-demand; iCoreHuddle and iCoreHuddle+, a tool to instantly reveal the revenue potential of each patient; and iCoreCodeGenius, a medical coding reference SaaS solution. It also offers iCoreExchange, a SaaS email solution that allows doctors to send and receive secure email with attachments to and from other healthcare professionals; iCoreCloud, ability to backup their on-premise servers and computers to the cloud; iCoreClaims, for processing and managing claims submitted by policyholders or dental care providers; iCorePay, a patient payment processing solutions for payment and revenue cycle tracking; iCoreSecure, secure SaaS solution that solves privacy concerns in the insurance, real estate, financial and many other industry sectors; and iCoreIT, an IT managed services. The company was formerly known as iMedicor, Inc. and changed its name to iCoreConnect Inc. in June 2017. iCoreConnect Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Ocoee, Florida.
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