Head-To-Head Contrast: Mogo (NASDAQ:MOGO) versus Wipro (NYSE:WIT)

Mogo (NASDAQ:MOGO) and Wipro (NYSE:WIT) are both technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

14.8% of Mogo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.4% of Wipro shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.3% of Mogo shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Wipro 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.

Volatility and Risk

Mogo has a beta of 2.71, indicating that its stock price is 171% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wipro has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Mogo and Wipro, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mogo	1	0	0	0	1.00
Wipro	4	0	0	0	1.00

Wipro has a consensus target price of $1.70, indicating a potential downside of 11.69%. Given Wipro’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Wipro is more favorable than Mogo.

Profitability

This table compares Mogo and Wipro’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mogo	11.41%	7.78%	3.34%
Wipro	13.58%	15.26%	9.43%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Mogo and Wipro”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mogo	$69.27 million	0.30	-$9.98 million	$0.23	3.82
Wipro	$9.87 billion	1.93	$1.41 billion	$0.13	14.81

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

Summary

Wipro beats Mogo on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Mogo

Mogo Inc. operates as a digital finance company in Canada, Europe, and internationally. The company's digital solutions help build wealth and achieve financial freedom. It provides MogoTrade, a stock trading app; Moka; and MogoMoney that provides online personal loans. The company also offers digital loans and mortgages; and operates a digital payments platform that powers next-generation card programs for both global corporations and fintech companies in Europe and Canada. Mogo Inc. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

About Wipro

Wipro Limited operates as an information technology (IT), consulting, and business process services company worldwide. It operates through IT Services and IT Products segments. The IT Services segment offers IT and IT-enabled services, including digital strategy advisory, customer-centric design, technology and IT consulting, custom application design, development, re-engineering and maintenance, systems integration, package implementation, cloud and infrastructure, business process, cloud, mobility and analytics, research and development, and hardware and software design services to enterprises. It serves customers in various industry sectors, such as communications, retail connectivity and services, consumer goods, healthcare, technology products and platforms, banking and financial services, energy, manufacturing and resources, capital markets and insurance, and hi-tech. The IT Products segment provides a range of third-party IT products comprising enterprise platforms, networking solutions, software and data storage products, contact center infrastructure, enterprise security, IT optimization technologies, video solutions, and end-user computing solutions. It serves enterprises in various industries primarily in the Indian market, which comprise the government, defense, IT and IT-enabled services, telecommunications, manufacturing, utilities, education, and financial services sectors. The company was incorporated in 1945 and is based in Bengaluru, India.