Head-To-Head Review: Accenture (NYSE:ACN) & Society Pass (NASDAQ:SOPA)

Society Pass (NASDAQ:SOPA) and Accenture (NYSE:ACN) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Society Pass and Accenture’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Society Pass	$8.17 million	0.34	-$18.13 million	($7.81)	-0.14
Accenture	$64.48 billion	3.18	$6.87 billion	$10.92	29.94

Accenture has higher revenue and earnings than Society Pass. Society Pass is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Accenture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

3.1% of Society Pass shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. 44.9% of Society Pass shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Accenture shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Society Pass and Accenture’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Society Pass	-196.58%	-202.73%	-84.35%
Accenture	10.79%	27.48%	14.59%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Society Pass and Accenture, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Society Pass	0	1	2	0	2.67
Accenture	0	10	12	0	2.55

Society Pass presently has a consensus target price of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4,145.28%. Accenture has a consensus target price of $351.82, suggesting a potential upside of 7.62%. Given Society Pass’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Society Pass is more favorable than Accenture.

Volatility and Risk

Society Pass has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Accenture has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Accenture beats Society Pass on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Society Pass

Society Pass Incorporated acquires and operates fintech and e-commerce platforms and mobile applications for consumers and merchants in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, the United States, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Thailand. It operates through Online Grocery and Food and Groceries Deliveries, Digital marketing, Online ticketing and reservation, Telecommunications Reseller, e-Commerce, and Merchant Point of Sale segments. The company operates Leflair, an online lifestyle platform that offers services and products, such as fashion and accessories, beauty and personal care, and home and lifestyle; an online food delivery service under the Handycart brand name; and an online grocery delivery service under the Pushkart brand name. It also sells hardware and software to merchant; local mobile phone and global internet data plans; and domestic and overseas air ticket, and global hotel reservations, as well as offers digital marketing services. The company was formerly known as Food Society, Inc. and changed its name to Society Pass Incorporated in October 2018. Society Pass Incorporated was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.

About Accenture

Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. The company offers application services, including agile transformation, DevOps, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, data management; intelligent automation comprising robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents; and application management services, as well as software engineering services; strategy and consulting services; data and analytics strategy, data discovery and augmentation, data management and beyond, data democratization, and industrialized solutions comprising turnkey analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions; metaverse; and sustainability services. It also provides change management, HR transformation and delivery, organization strategy and design, talent strategy and development, and leadership and culture services; digital commerce; infrastructure services, including cloud infrastructure managed, cloud and data center, network, digital workplace, database platforms, service management, and cloud and infrastructure security services; data-enabled operating models; technology consulting and AI services; and technology consulting services. In addition, the company offers engineering and R&D digitization, smart connected products, product as-a-service enablement, capital projects, intelligent asset management, digital industrial workforce, and autonomous robotic systems; business process outsourcing; and services related to technology innovation. Further, it provides cloud, ecosystem, marketing, security, supply chain management, zero-based transformation, customer experience, finance consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainability services. The company has a collaboration with Salesforce, Inc. to develop Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.