Financial Comparison: SEA (NYSE:SE) and Cirata (OTCMKTS:WANSF)

SEA (NYSE:SE) and Cirata (OTCMKTS:WANSF) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for SEA and Cirata, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SEA	0	6	9	1	2.69
Cirata	0	0	0	0	0.00

SEA currently has a consensus price target of $176.85, indicating a potential downside of 2.37%. Given SEA’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe SEA is more favorable than Cirata.

Profitability

This table compares SEA and Cirata’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SEA	6.23%	13.66%	5.16%
Cirata	N/A	N/A	N/A

Volatility & Risk

SEA has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cirata has a beta of -22.44, meaning that its stock price is 2,344% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares SEA and Cirata”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SEA	$16.82 billion	6.34	$444.32 million	$1.93	93.86
Cirata	$7.68 million	0.11	-$13.51 million	N/A	N/A

SEA has higher revenue and earnings than Cirata.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

59.5% of SEA shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of SEA shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

SEA beats Cirata on 13 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SEA

Sea Ltd. is an internet and mobile platform company, which engages in the provision of online gaming services. It operates through the following segments: Digital Entertainment, E-Commerce, and Digital Financial Services. The Digital Entertainment segment offers and develops mobile and PC online games. The E-Commerce segment manages a third-party marketplace through the Shopee mobile app and websites that connect buyers and sellers. The Digital Financial Services segment includes a variety of payment services and loans to individuals and businesses through SeaMoney. Sea was founded by Xiao Dong Li, Gang Ye, and Jing Ye Chen on May 8, 2009 and is headquartered in Singapore.

About Cirata

Cirata plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development and provision of collaboration software in North America, Europe, China, and internationally. The company provides Data Migrator, an automated solution that moves on-premises HDFS data, Hive metadata, local filesystem, or cloud data sources to any cloud or on-premises environment; and Data Migrator for Hadoop, a cloud migration solution that automates the seamless transfer of HDFS data and Hive metadata to the cloud. It also offers Access Control Plus, an access control solution, that enables project administrators to manage the complexity of complete and proper authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ) configuration file generation; and Gerrit MultiSite, a development team collaboration solution, which enables replication of Gerrit server and packaged in a simple to deploy and maintain format. In addition, the company provides Git MultiSite and Subversion MultiSite Plus solutions enable distributed teams to collaborate as one with no downtime, no disruption, and consistent security policy enforcement across all locations. It offers its solutions for automotive, telecommunications, and financial service industries. The company was formerly known as WANdisco plc and changed its name to Cirata plc in October 2023. Cirata plc was incorporated in 2012 and is based in St. Helier, Jersey.