Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR – Get Free Report) and Pony AI (NASDAQ:PONY – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
73.1% of Radware shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of Radware shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings for Radware and Pony AI, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Radware | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| Pony AI | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2.60 |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Radware and Pony AI”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Radware | $301.85 million | 4.01 | $20.26 million | $0.38 | 75.65 |
| Pony AI | $90.00 million | 32.19 | -$133.97 million | ($0.36) | -18.53 |
Radware has higher revenue and earnings than Pony AI. Pony AI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Radware, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility & Risk
Radware has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pony AI has a beta of 3.87, suggesting that its stock price is 287% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Radware and Pony AI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Radware | 5.34% | 7.47% | 4.26% |
| Pony AI | -118.47% | -14.86% | -13.97% |
Summary
Radware beats Pony AI on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Radware
Radware Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets cyber security and application delivery solutions for cloud, on-premises, and software defined data centers worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Radware’s Core Business and The Hawks’ Business. It offers DefensePro provides automated DDoS protection; Radware Kubernetes, a web application firewall solution; and Cyber Controller, a unified solution for management, configuration, and attack lifecycle. The company also provides Alteon, an application delivery and security solution that manages application traffic across cloud and data center locations for optimizing availability and performance; and LinkProof NG, a multi-homing and enterprise gateway solution. In addition, it offers ERT Security Updates Subscription that provides protection from network elements, hosts, and applications; ERT Active Attackers Feed, a threat intelligence feed to protect against DDoS threats; ERT Protection Packages; Alteon Global Elastic License, a purchasing and deployment subscription; MSSP Portal, a DDoS detection and mitigation service portal; Location-based Mitigation that enables network traffic based on the geolocation mapping of IP subnets; and Cloud DDoS Protection Service, which offers a range of enterprise-grade DDoS protection services in the cloud. Further, the company provides Cloud Web DDoS Protection, Cloud WAF Service, Bot Manager, Cloud-Native Protector, and Cloud Application Protection Services, as well as technical support, professional, managed, and training and certification services. It sells its products primarily to independent distributors, including value added resellers, original equipment manufacturers, and system integrators. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
About Pony AI
Pony AI Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the autonomous mobility principally in the People’s Republic of China and the United States. The company provides robotruck services, such as transportation services to the logistics platforms. Pony AI Inc. is based in Guangzhou, the People’s Republic of China.
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