Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ:JG – Get Free Report) and Nexxen International (NASDAQ:NEXN – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Profitability
This table compares Aurora Mobile and Nexxen International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Aurora Mobile | -7.99% | -9.17% | -2.71% |
| Nexxen International | 3.96% | 7.49% | 4.70% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Aurora Mobile and Nexxen International”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Aurora Mobile | $300.43 million | 0.14 | -$8.75 million | ($0.54) | -13.09 |
| Nexxen International | $349.11 million | 1.89 | -$21.49 million | $0.04 | 250.50 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
85.5% of Aurora Mobile shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% of Nexxen International shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.2% of Aurora Mobile shares 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.
Risk and Volatility
Aurora Mobile has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nexxen International has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Aurora Mobile and Nexxen International, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Aurora Mobile | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Nexxen International | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2.80 |
Aurora Mobile currently has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.99%. Nexxen International has a consensus price target of $9.80, suggesting a potential downside of 2.20%. Given Aurora Mobile’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Aurora Mobile is more favorable than Nexxen International.
Summary
Nexxen International beats Aurora Mobile on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Aurora Mobile
Aurora Mobile Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of developer services in China. The company provides push notification, instant messaging, analytics, sharing and short message service, one-click verification, and other services. The company offers real-time market intelligence solutions, such as product iApp, which provides analysis and statistical results on the usage and trends of mobile apps to investment funds and corporations. It also provides financial risk management solutions to assist financial institutions, licensed lenders, and credit card companies in making informed lending and credit decisions; and location-based intelligence services. In addition, the company offers application programming interfaces that create connectivity and automate the process of message exchange between the mobile apps and its backend network; an interactive web-based service dashboard that allows app developers to utilize and monitor its services through controls on an ongoing basis; and value added services, such as Advertisement SAAS, a data management platform service, which provides tagged and de-identified population data package; JG Alliance, an integrated marketing campaign services to advertising customers; and AD Mediation Platform to help mobile app developers access other mainstream advertising platforms. It primarily serves mobile app developers in a range of industries, such as media, entertainment, gaming, financial services, tourism, ecommerce, education, and healthcare. Aurora Mobile Limited was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.
About Nexxen International
Nexxen International Ltd. provides end-to-end software platform that enables advertisers to reach publishers Israel. The company’s demand side platform (DSP) offers full-service and self-managed marketplace access to advertisers and agencies to execute their digital marketing campaigns in real time across various ad formats. Its sell supply side platform (SSP) provides access to data and a comprehensive product suite to drive inventory management and revenue optimization. The company also offers data management platform solution, which integrates DSP and SSP solutions enabling advertisers and publishers to use data from various sources in order to optimize results of their advertising campaigns. It serves ad buyers, advertisers, brands, agencies, and digital publishers in the United States, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company was formerly known as Tremor International Ltd and changed its name to Nexxen International Ltd. in January 2024. Nexxen International Ltd. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.
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