Contrasting Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK) & Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. (NASDAQ:LYT)

Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. (NASDAQ:LYT) and Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. and Verisk Analytics, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV.	0	0	0	0	N/A
Verisk Analytics	0	8	6	0	2.43

Verisk Analytics has a consensus target price of $258.54, indicating a potential downside of 7.65%. Given Verisk Analytics’ higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Verisk Analytics is more favorable than Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV..

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. and Verisk Analytics’ top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV.	$19.39 million	0.16	-$2.35 million	N/A	N/A
Verisk Analytics	$2.68 billion	14.90	$614.60 million	$5.36	52.23

Verisk Analytics has higher revenue and earnings than Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV..

Risk and Volatility

Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Verisk Analytics has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. and Verisk Analytics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV.	N/A	N/A	N/A
Verisk Analytics	28.45%	268.19%	20.04%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

0.4% of Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of Verisk Analytics shares are held by institutional investors. 84.9% of Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Verisk Analytics shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Verisk Analytics beats Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV.

Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. Ltd. operates as a platform services company in India. The company engages in the distribution of linear content streaming/telecasting services; and development of telemedicine products. Lytus Technologies Holdings PTV. Ltd. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

About Verisk Analytics

Verisk Analytics, Inc. provides data analytics and technology solutions to the insurance markets in the United States and internationally. It offers policy language, prospective loss costs, policy writing and rating rules, and various underwriting solutions for risk selection and segmentation, pricing, and workflow optimization; property- and auto- specific rating and underwriting information solutions that allows clients to understand, quantify, underwrite, mitigate, and avoid potential loss for risks; catastrophe modeling solutions, which enables companies to identify, quantify, and plan for the financial consequences of catastrophes for use by insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, financial institutions, and governments. The company also provides life insurance solutions for transforming current workflows in life insurance underwriting, claim insights, policy administration, unclaimed property/equity, compliance and fraud detection, and actuarial and portfolio modeling; Marketing Solutions, such as compliant, real-time decisioning, profitability, and risk assessment for inbound consumer interactions; and international underwriting and claims solutions. In addition, it offers claims insurance solutions, which provides analytics in fraud detection, compliance reporting, subrogation liability assessment, litigation, and repair cost estimation and valuation solutions; and casualty solutions, such as compliance, casualty claims decision support, and workflow automation solutions. Further, the company supplies software to the specialty insurance market. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.