Comparing N-able (NYSE:NABL) & Oc Oerlikon Cp (OTCMKTS:OERLF)

N-able (NYSE:NABL) and Oc Oerlikon Cp (OTCMKTS:OERLF) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

96.4% of N-able shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of N-able shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for N-able and Oc Oerlikon Cp, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
N-able	2	3	3	0	2.13
Oc Oerlikon Cp	0	1	0	0	2.00

N-able currently has a consensus target price of $7.55, indicating a potential upside of 137.05%. Given N-able’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe N-able is more favorable than Oc Oerlikon Cp.

Profitability

This table compares N-able and Oc Oerlikon Cp’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
N-able	-1.99%	3.40%	1.96%
Oc Oerlikon Cp	N/A	N/A	N/A

Volatility and Risk

N-able has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oc Oerlikon Cp has a beta of -0.83, meaning that its stock price is 183% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares N-able and Oc Oerlikon Cp”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
N-able	$511.43 million	1.17	-$17.03 million	($0.05)	-63.70
Oc Oerlikon Cp	$1.89 billion	0.78	-$22.93 million	N/A	N/A

N-able has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Oc Oerlikon Cp.

Summary

N-able beats Oc Oerlikon Cp on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About N-able

N-able, Inc. provides cloud-based software solutions for managed service providers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company's solutions enable MSPs to support digital transformation and growth within small and medium-sized enterprises. It provides software platform designed to be an integrated, enterprise-grade solution that serves as an operating system for its MSP partners and scales as their businesses grow. In addition, the company offers remote monitoring and management solutions provide MSP partners with visibility and insights into the availability and performance of their customers' networks, infrastructure, devices and applications through a centralized dashboard; data protection as-a-service solutions, such as backup and disaster recovery for servers, virtual machines, workstations, files, data, and key cloud-based applications, as well as multi-tenant platform and secure remote delivery architecture. Further, it offers security services through patch management, endpoint security, managed detection and response, web protection, e-mail security, and archiving and vulnerability assessment solutions. Additionally, the company engages in professional services automation, automation and scripting management, password management policies and reporting, and analytics. N-able, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

About Oc Oerlikon Cp

OC Oerlikon Corporation AG provides surface engineering, polymer processing, and additive manufacturing services in Switzerland, Americas, the Asia-Pacific, and Europe. The company operates through two segments, Surface Solutions and Polymer Processing. It offers engine fan compressors, engine hot section, landing gears, actuation systems, aircraft interior, and hydraulic systems for aerospace; engine and brake systems, transmission, drive train, steering and suspension, exhaust systems, piping and tubing systems, exterior, lighting, green hydrogen, interior, heat exchanger and EGR coolers, peripherals and design parts, and thermal insulation systems for automotive; and oil and gas, and boilers, as well as hydro, gas, steam, and wind turbines for energy industry. In addition, the company offers cutting, metal forming, plastic processing, and die casting for tooling industry; additives, coatings, conductive filler materials, control units, thermal spray systems and components, face to face systems, valve fate systems, hot valves, hot runner systems, single nozzles, stack molds, surface solutions, and valve gates group single nozzles; AM metal powder for additive manufacturing; polymer processing for textile and apparel, functional wear, transportation, packaging, flooring and textile, medical and fiber, and infrastructure; and spine implants, medical, artificial joints, dental and veterinary implants, and surgical and minimally invasive surgical instruments for medical industry. It serves surface solutions under Oerlikon Balzers, Oerlikon Metco, and Oerlikon AM ; and polymer processing solutions under Oerlikon Barmag, Oerlikon Neumag, Oerlikon Nonwoven, and Oerlikon HRSFlow name. OC Oerlikon Corporation AG was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland.