Reviewing Amplitude (NASDAQ:AMPL) & AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT)

AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPTGet Free Report) and Amplitude (NASDAQ:AMPLGet Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Risk & Volatility

AvePoint has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amplitude has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for AvePoint and Amplitude, as provided by MarketBeat.

Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
AvePoint 0 2 3 0 2.60
Amplitude 1 6 0 0 1.86

AvePoint currently has a consensus target price of $13.20, indicating a potential downside of 25.21%. Amplitude has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.38%. Given Amplitude’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amplitude is more favorable than AvePoint.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares AvePoint and Amplitude”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Gross Revenue Price/Sales Ratio Net Income Earnings Per Share Price/Earnings Ratio
AvePoint $271.83 million 12.12 -$21.50 million ($0.05) -352.93
Amplitude $276.28 million 3.54 -$90.36 million ($0.67) -15.43

AvePoint has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Amplitude. AvePoint is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amplitude, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

44.5% of AvePoint shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.2% of Amplitude shares are held by institutional investors. 27.8% of AvePoint shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Amplitude shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares AvePoint and Amplitude’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
AvePoint -2.36% -3.16% -1.55%
Amplitude -27.44% -27.40% -18.05%

Summary

AvePoint beats Amplitude on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AvePoint

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AvePoint, Inc. provides cloud-native data management software platform in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. It also offers software-as-a-service solutions and productivity applications. The company offers modularity and cloud services architecture to address critical challenges and the management of data to organizations that leverage third-party cloud vendors, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, AWS, Box, DropBox, and others; license and support; and maintenance services. AvePoint, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

About Amplitude

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Amplitude, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides a digital analytics platform that analyzes customer behavior in the United States and internationally. It offers Amplitude Analytics, which provides real-time product data and reconstructed user visits; Amplitude Experiment, a solution that allows teams to test new capabilities and safely roll out new features; Amplitude CDP, an insight-driven solution that encompasses the data infrastructure, audience management, and data streaming capabilities; and Amplitude Session Replay used by product, marketing, and data teams to understand user behavior, diagnose product issues, and improve product outcomes. The company also provides customer support services related to initial implementation setup, ongoing support, and application training. It delivers its application over the Internet as a subscription service using a software-as-a-service model. The company was formerly known as Sonalight, Inc. and changed its name to Amplitude, Inc. in December 2014. Amplitude, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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