Head-To-Head Comparison: LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) and GigaCloud Technology (NASDAQ:GCT)

LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) and GigaCloud Technology (NASDAQ:GCT) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for LiveRamp and GigaCloud Technology, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LiveRamp	1	4	3	0	2.25
GigaCloud Technology	0	3	1	1	2.60

LiveRamp currently has a consensus target price of $42.57, indicating a potential upside of 45.76%. GigaCloud Technology has a consensus target price of $24.00, indicating a potential downside of 6.80%. Given LiveRamp’s higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe LiveRamp is more favorable than GigaCloud Technology.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares LiveRamp and GigaCloud Technology”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
LiveRamp	$764.44 million	2.51	-$810,000.00	$0.22	132.75
GigaCloud Technology	$1.16 billion	0.84	$125.81 million	$3.33	7.73

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

Profitability

This table compares LiveRamp and GigaCloud Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LiveRamp	1.89%	2.21%	1.69%
GigaCloud Technology	11.17%	32.33%	12.35%

Volatility & Risk

LiveRamp has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GigaCloud Technology has a beta of 2.35, indicating that its share price is 135% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

93.8% of LiveRamp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.9% of GigaCloud Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of LiveRamp shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.7% of GigaCloud Technology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

GigaCloud Technology beats LiveRamp on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About LiveRamp

LiveRamp Holdings, Inc., a technology company, operates a data collaboration platform in the United States, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company operates LiveRamp Data Collaboration platform enables an organization to unify customer and prospect data to build a single view of the customer in a way that protects consumer privacy. Its platform supports various people-based marketing solutions, including data collaboration, activation, measurement and analytics, identity, and data marketplace. The company sells its solutions to enterprise marketers, agencies, marketing technology providers, publishers, and data providers in various industry verticals, such as financial, insurance and investment services, retail, automotive, telecommunications, high tech, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, travel, entertainment, and non-profit. The company was formerly known as Acxiom Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. in October 2018. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About GigaCloud Technology

GigaCloud Technology Inc. provides end-to-end B2B ecommerce solutions for large parcel merchandise in the United States and internationally. The company offers GigaCloud Marketplace integrates product discovery to payments to logistics tools into one easy-to-use platform. Its marketplace connects manufacturers primarily in Asia with resellers in the United States, Asia, and Europe to execute cross-border transactions across furniture, home appliance, fitness equipment, and other large parcel categories. The company was formerly known as Oriental Standard Human Resources Holdings Limited and changed its name to GigaCloud Technology Inc. in February 2021. GigaCloud Technology Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in El Monte, California.