ServiceTitan (NASDAQ:TTAN – Get Free Report) and Telos (NASDAQ:TLS – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares ServiceTitan and Telos’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| ServiceTitan | -12.12% | -5.65% | -4.93% |
| Telos | -8.13% | -2.60% | -1.80% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for ServiceTitan and Telos, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| ServiceTitan | 1 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 2.76 |
| Telos | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2.43 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
62.1% of Telos shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.9% of ServiceTitan shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.9% of Telos shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility and Risk
ServiceTitan has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telos has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares ServiceTitan and Telos”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| ServiceTitan | $960.97 million | 7.32 | -$159.85 million | ($1.36) | -53.62 |
| Telos | $193.71 million | 1.69 | -$36.55 million | ($0.21) | -20.81 |
Telos has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ServiceTitan. ServiceTitan is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Telos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Telos beats ServiceTitan on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About ServiceTitan
ServiceTitan, Inc. engages in the collection of field service activities required to install, maintain, and service the infrastructure and systems of residences and commercial buildings. The company was founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan on June 8, 2008 and is headquartered in Glendale, CA.
About Telos
Telos Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides cyber, cloud, and enterprise security solutions worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Security Solutions and Secure Networks. It provides Xacta, a platform for enterprise cyber risk management and security compliance automation; and consulting, assessment and compliance, engineering and evaluation, operations, and penetration testing services. The company also offers Telos Automated Message Handling System, a web-based organizational message distribution and management for mission-critical communications used by military field operatives; and Telos Advanced Cyber Analytics solution, which is a threat feed source of global Internet Protocol addresses known to engage in potentially malicious activity, including mass scanning and generic opportunistic attacks; and Telos Ghost, a solution to eliminate cyberattack surfaces by obfuscating and encrypting data, masking user identity and location, and hiding network resources, as well as provides security and privacy for intelligence gathering, cyber threat protection, securing critical infrastructure, and protecting communications and applications. In addition, the company provides IDTrust360, an enterprise digital trusted identity risk platform for extending flexible hybrid cloud identity services; and ONYX, a touchless fingerprint biometric solution for mobile devices. Further, it offers secure mobility solutions that enable remote work and minimize operational and security concerns across and beyond the enterprise; and network management and defense services for operating, administrating, and defending complex enterprise networks and services for defensive cyber operations. It serves the United States federal government, large commercial businesses, state and local governments, and international customers. Telos Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia.
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