AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) and Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ:JG) Head to Head Contrast

AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) and Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ:JG) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for AvePoint and Aurora Mobile, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AvePoint	0	5	10	0	2.67
Aurora Mobile	1	0	0	0	1.00

AvePoint currently has a consensus price target of $18.21, indicating a potential upside of 83.01%. Given AvePoint’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe AvePoint is more favorable than Aurora Mobile.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

44.5% of AvePoint shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Aurora Mobile shares are held by institutional investors. 26.2% of AvePoint shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.2% of Aurora Mobile shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares AvePoint and Aurora Mobile’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AvePoint	0.55%	0.66%	0.40%
Aurora Mobile	-1.00%	-3.68%	-0.95%

Risk and Volatility

AvePoint has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aurora Mobile has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares AvePoint and Aurora Mobile”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AvePoint	$330.48 million	6.50	-$29.09 million	N/A	N/A
Aurora Mobile	$43.31 million	1.07	-$960,000.00	($0.08)	-96.95

Aurora Mobile has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AvePoint.

Summary

AvePoint beats Aurora Mobile on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AvePoint

AvePoint, Inc. provides cloud-native data management software platform in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. It also offers software-as-a-service solutions and productivity applications. The company offers modularity and cloud services architecture to address critical challenges and the management of data to organizations that leverage third-party cloud vendors, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, AWS, Box, DropBox, and others; license and support; and maintenance services. AvePoint, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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.