Comparing Culture Medium (OTCMKTS:UPIN) & Vertiv (NYSE:VRT)

Culture Medium (OTCMKTS:UPIN) and Vertiv (NYSE:VRT) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Culture Medium and Vertiv”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Culture Medium	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Vertiv	$10.23 billion	11.28	$1.33 billion	$3.98	75.49

Vertiv has higher revenue and earnings than Culture Medium.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

89.9% of Vertiv shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Vertiv shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Culture Medium and Vertiv, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Culture Medium	0	0	0	0	0.00
Vertiv	1	3	22	2	2.89

Vertiv has a consensus target price of $322.32, indicating a potential upside of 7.28%. Given Vertiv’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Vertiv is more favorable than Culture Medium.

Risk and Volatility

Culture Medium has a beta of -2.35, suggesting that its stock price is 335% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vertiv has a beta of 2.03, suggesting that its stock price is 103% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Culture Medium and Vertiv’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Culture Medium	N/A	N/A	N/A
Vertiv	14.37%	49.90%	15.79%

Summary

Vertiv beats Culture Medium on 11 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Culture Medium

Universal Power Industry Corporation designs, imports, and wholesales apparel under the Indigo People brand. It also identifies and acquires residential land for the development, as well as light income-producing commercial properties; and distributes fire suppression products. The company was formerly known as Code Navy and changed its name to Universal Power Industry Corporation in April 2016. Universal Power Industry Corporation was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Great Neck, New York.

About Vertiv

Vertiv Holdings Co, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and services critical digital infrastructure technologies and life cycle services for data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It offers AC and DC power management products, switchgear and busbar products, thermal management products, integrated rack systems, modular solutions, and management systems for monitoring and controlling digital infrastructure that are integral to the technologies used for various services, including e-commerce, online banking, file sharing, video on-demand, energy storage, wireless communications, Internet of Things, and online gaming. The company also provides lifecycle management services, predictive analytics, and professional services for deploying, maintaining, and optimizing its products and their related systems; and preventative maintenance, acceptance testing, engineering and consulting, performance assessments, remote monitoring, training, spare parts, and digital critical infrastructure software services. It offers its products primarily under the Vertiv, Liebert, NetSure, Geist, E&I, Powerbar, and Avocent brands. The company serves cloud services, financial services, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, energy, education, government, social media, and retail industries through a network of direct sales professionals, independent sales representatives, channel partners, and original equipment manufacturers. Vertiv Holdings Co is headquartered in Westerville, Ohio.