GDS (NASDAQ:GDS) and Urgent.ly (OTCMKTS:ULYX) Head to Head Contrast

Urgent.ly (OTCMKTS:ULYX) and GDS (NASDAQ:GDS) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Urgent.ly and GDS, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Urgent.ly	1	1	1	0	2.00
GDS	0	2	3	1	2.83

Urgent.ly currently has a consensus target price of $6.75, suggesting a potential upside of 22.84%. GDS has a consensus target price of $48.12, suggesting a potential upside of 49.11%. Given GDS’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe GDS is more favorable than Urgent.ly.

Profitability

This table compares Urgent.ly and GDS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Urgent.ly	-15.81%	N/A	-47.23%
GDS	30.70%	17.94%	6.11%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

28.3% of Urgent.ly shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.7% of GDS shares are held by institutional investors. 3.1% of Urgent.ly shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of GDS shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

Urgent.ly has a beta of -5.01, suggesting that its stock price is 601% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GDS has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Urgent.ly and GDS”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Urgent.ly	$129.19 million	0.09	-$20.43 million	($13.82)	-0.40
GDS	$12.26 billion	0.53	$132.10 million	$2.15	15.01

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

Summary

GDS beats Urgent.ly on 15 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Urgent.ly

URGENT.LY INC

About GDS

GDS Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, develops and operates data centers in the People's Republic of China. The company provides colocation services comprising critical facilities space, customer-available power, racks, and cooling; managed hosting services, including business continuity and disaster recovery, network management, data storage, system security, operating system, database, and server middleware services; managed cloud services; and consulting services. It serves cloud service providers, large Internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications and IT service providers, and large domestic private sector and multinational corporations. GDS Holdings Limited was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.