Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ:IAS) vs. Tiga Acquisition (NYSE:TINV) Head-To-Head Contrast

Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ:IAS) and Tiga Acquisition (NYSE:TINV) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Integral Ad Science and Tiga Acquisition’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Integral Ad Science	$474.37 million	3.29	$7.24 million	$0.01	972.97
Tiga Acquisition	N/A	N/A	$23.19 million	N/A	N/A

Tiga Acquisition has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Integral Ad Science.

Volatility and Risk

Integral Ad Science has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tiga Acquisition has a beta of -0.02, suggesting that its share price is 102% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Integral Ad Science and Tiga Acquisition, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Integral Ad Science	0	3	11	0	2.79
Tiga Acquisition	0	0	0	0	N/A

Integral Ad Science currently has a consensus target price of $16.77, indicating a potential upside of 72.52%. Given Integral Ad Science’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Integral Ad Science is more favorable than Tiga Acquisition.

Profitability

This table compares Integral Ad Science and Tiga Acquisition’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Integral Ad Science	0.59%	0.32%	0.24%
Tiga Acquisition	N/A	-36.88%	-2.91%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

95.8% of Integral Ad Science shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.5% of Tiga Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Integral Ad Science shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Tiga Acquisition shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Integral Ad Science beats Tiga Acquisition on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Integral Ad Science

Integral Ad Science Holding Corp. operates as a digital advertising verification company in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Australia, Japan, India, and the Nordics. The company provides IAS Signal, a cloud-based technology platform that offers return on ad spend needs; and deliver independent measurement and verification of digital advertising across devices, channels, and formats, including desktop, mobile, connected TV, social, display, and video. Its digital media quality solutions offer ad fraud detection and prevention, viewability, brand safety and suitability, contextual targeting, inventory yield management, and reporting. In addition, the company offers Quality Impressions, a metric designed to verify that digital ads are served to a real person rather than a bot, viewable on-screen, and presented in a brand-safe and suitable environment in the correct geography; Context Control solution that delivers contextual targeting and brand suitability capabilities; pre-bid programmatic and post-bid verification solutions for advertisers; and optimization and verification solutions for publishers. It serves advertisers and agencies, publishers, and supply side platforms. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

About Tiga Acquisition

Tiga Acquisition Corp. does not have significant operations. It intends to effect a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Singapore.