Head to Head Survey: Astea International (OTCMKTS:ATEA) & Digital Turbine (NASDAQ:APPS)

Digital Turbine (NASDAQ:APPS) and Astea International (OTCMKTS:ATEA) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Digital Turbine and Astea International”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Digital Turbine	$565.25 million	2.18	-$37.73 million	($0.26)	-39.17
Astea International	$27.47 million	1.69	$360,000.00	N/A	N/A

Astea International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Digital Turbine.

Profitability

This table compares Digital Turbine and Astea International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Digital Turbine	-4.46%	38.34%	8.27%
Astea International	-7.77%	-6.85%	-12.99%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Digital Turbine and Astea International, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Digital Turbine	1	1	4	0	2.50
Astea International	0	0	0	0	0.00

Digital Turbine presently has a consensus target price of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 44.85%. Given Digital Turbine’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Digital Turbine is more favorable than Astea International.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

63.7% of Digital Turbine shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of Digital Turbine shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.5% of Astea International shares are held by company 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.

Risk & Volatility

Digital Turbine has a beta of 2.81, meaning that its share price is 181% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Astea International has a beta of -0.3, meaning that its share price is 130% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Digital Turbine beats Astea International on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Digital Turbine

Digital Turbine, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates a mobile growth platform for advertisers, publishers, carriers, and device original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The company operates through two segments, On Device Solutions and App Growth Platform. Its application media platform delivers mobile applications to various publishers, carriers, OEMs, and devices; and content media platform offers news, weather, sports, and other content, as well as programmatic advertising and media content delivery services, and sponsored and editorial content media. The company also provides direct campaign management products, such as the DT DSP and DT Offer Wall; ad monetization solutions allow mobile app publishers and developers to monetize their monthly active users via display, native, and video advertising; brands and agencies runs mobile brand-awareness campaigns on the direct mobile app inventory; and app developers and other performance-focused advertisers execute mobile user acquisition campaigns for their apps and products. It operates in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, China, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

About Astea International

Astea International Inc. develops, markets, and supports service management software solutions worldwide. It offers Astea Alliance, a service management software that addresses the service lifecycle applications, including lead generation, project quotation, service and billing, and asset retirement; and integrates and optimizes business processes for campaigns, call center, depot repair, field service, logistics, projects, and sales and order processing applications. The company also provides FieldCentrix Enterprise suite, a service management solution that runs on various mobile devices; and integrates with customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning applications. In addition, it supports deployments in on-premise, as well as cloud environments by leveraging a multi-tenant architecture; and provides infrastructure tools and services, as well as consulting, implementation, training, and maintenance services. The company's products are used in information technology, medical devices and diagnostic systems, industrial controls and instrumentation, retail/point-of-sale equipment, office automation equipment, imaging systems, fire and security, gaming/leisure equipment, facilities management, and telecommunications, and other related industries with equipment sales and service requirements. Astea International Inc. markets its products through a network of direct and indirect sales and services offices; and distributors consisting of value-added resellers, system integrators, and sales agents, as well as original equipment manufacturing partners. The company was formerly known as Applied System Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Astea International Inc. in 1992. Astea International Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania.