Comparing SmartRent (NYSE:SMRT) and mCloud Technologies (OTCMKTS:MCLDF)

SmartRent (NYSE:SMRT) and mCloud Technologies (OTCMKTS:MCLDF) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

59.4% of SmartRent shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of SmartRent shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of mCloud Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for SmartRent and mCloud Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SmartRent	1	2	0	0	1.67
mCloud Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00

SmartRent currently has a consensus target price of $1.40, indicating a potential upside of 15.70%. Given SmartRent’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe SmartRent is more favorable than mCloud Technologies.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares SmartRent and mCloud Technologies”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SmartRent	$152.33 million	1.53	-$60.56 million	($0.13)	-9.31
mCloud Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	($0.50)	N/A

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

Profitability

This table compares SmartRent and mCloud Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SmartRent	-16.58%	-10.61%	-7.57%
mCloud Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A

Volatility & Risk

SmartRent has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, mCloud Technologies has a beta of 58.38, indicating that its stock price is 5,738% more volatile than the S&P 500.

About SmartRent

SmartRent, Inc., an enterprise software company, provides an integrated smart home operating system to residential property owners and operators, homebuilders, institutional home buyers, developers, and residents in the United States. The company’s products and solutions include smart apartments and homes, access control for buildings, common areas, and rental units, asset protection and monitoring, parking management, self-guided tours, and community and resident Wi-Fi. It also offers professional services to customers, which include training, installation, and support services. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

About mCloud Technologies

mCloud Technologies Corp. provides asset management platform solutions combining IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and cloud in North America, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and China. Its AI-powered AssetCare platform offers asset management solutions, such as Connected Buildings, an AI and analytics solution to automate and remotely manage commercial buildings; Connected Workers, a cloud software to assist workers in the field to stay connected to experts remotely, facilitate repairs, and provide workers with an AI-powered digital assistant; Connected Energy for the inspection of wind turbine blades using AI-powered computer vision and the deployment of analytics to maximize wind farm energy production yield and availability; Connected Industry, to process assets and control endpoint monitoring, equipment health, and asset inventory management, as well as for the management of change across distributed teams; and Connected Health, which includes remote health monitoring and connectivity to caregivers using mobile apps and wireless sensors. The company was formerly known as Universal mCloud Corp. and changed its name to mCloud Technologies Corp. in October 2019. mCloud Technologies Corp. was founded in 2017 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.