Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ:JG – Get Free Report) and Vivid Seats (NASDAQ:SEAT – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Aurora Mobile and Vivid Seats, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Aurora Mobile | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Vivid Seats | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
Vivid Seats has a consensus target price of $9.43, indicating a potential upside of 21.56%. Given Vivid Seats’ higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Vivid Seats is more favorable than Aurora Mobile.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Aurora Mobile | 1.06% | 4.08% | 1.02% |
| Vivid Seats | -82.25% | 68.65% | 5.92% |
Risk & Volatility
Aurora Mobile has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vivid Seats has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Aurora Mobile and Vivid Seats”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Aurora Mobile | $53.60 million | 0.57 | $60,000.00 | $0.12 | 42.58 |
| Vivid Seats | $570.78 million | 0.15 | -$429.30 million | ($69.61) | -0.11 |
Aurora Mobile has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Vivid Seats. Vivid Seats is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aurora Mobile, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
85.5% of Aurora Mobile shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.9% of Vivid Seats shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.2% of Aurora Mobile shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 60.5% of Vivid Seats shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Vivid Seats beats Aurora Mobile on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Aurora Mobile
Aurora Mobile Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of developer services in China. The company provides push notification, instant messaging, analytics, sharing and short message service, one-click verification, and other services. The company offers real-time market intelligence solutions, such as product iApp, which provides analysis and statistical results on the usage and trends of mobile apps to investment funds and corporations. It also provides financial risk management solutions to assist financial institutions, licensed lenders, and credit card companies in making informed lending and credit decisions; and location-based intelligence services. In addition, the company offers application programming interfaces that create connectivity and automate the process of message exchange between the mobile apps and its backend network; an interactive web-based service dashboard that allows app developers to utilize and monitor its services through controls on an ongoing basis; and value added services, such as Advertisement SAAS, a data management platform service, which provides tagged and de-identified population data package; JG Alliance, an integrated marketing campaign services to advertising customers; and AD Mediation Platform to help mobile app developers access other mainstream advertising platforms. It primarily serves mobile app developers in a range of industries, such as media, entertainment, gaming, financial services, tourism, ecommerce, education, and healthcare. Aurora Mobile Limited was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.
About Vivid Seats
Vivid Seats Inc. operates an online ticket marketplace in the United States, Canada, and Japan. The company operates in two segments, Marketplace and Resale. The Marketplace segment acts as an intermediary between event ticket buyers and sellers; processes ticket sales on its website and mobile applications through its distribution partners; and sells tickets for sports, concerts, theater events, and other live events. This segment offers Skybox, a proprietary enterprise resource planning tool that helps ticket sellers manage ticket inventories, adjust pricing, and fulfill orders across multiple ticket resale marketplaces; and Vivid Picks daily fantasy sports that allows users to partake in contests by making picks from various sport and player matchups. The Resale segment acquires tickets to resell on secondary ticket marketplaces; and provides internal research and development support for Skybox and to deliver seller software and tools. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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