Head to Head Analysis: LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) vs. Xperi (NYSE:XPER)

LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) and Xperi (NYSE:XPER) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LiveRamp	18.71%	9.77%	7.41%
Xperi	-7.12%	4.04%	2.72%

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
LiveRamp	$812.94 million	2.86	$145.95 million	$2.44	15.67
Xperi	$456.84 million	0.55	-$56.34 million	($0.70)	-7.40

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

93.8% of LiveRamp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.3% of Xperi shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of LiveRamp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Xperi shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

LiveRamp has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xperi has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for LiveRamp and Xperi, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LiveRamp	0	6	2	0	2.25
Xperi	1	1	2	0	2.25

LiveRamp presently has a consensus target price of $40.21, suggesting a potential upside of 5.18%. Xperi has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 112.36%. Given Xperi’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Xperi is more favorable than LiveRamp.

Summary

LiveRamp beats Xperi on 9 of the 12 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 Xperi

Xperi Holding Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a consumer and entertainment product/solutions licensing company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Product, and Intellectual Property Licensing. The company invents, develops, and delivers various technologies. It licenses audio, digital radio, imaging, edge-based machine learning, and multi-channel video user experience solutions to consumer electronics customers, automotive manufacturers, or supply chain partners. The company also provides licensing to multichannel video programming distributors, OTT video service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers, social media, and other new media companies in media industry; and memory, sensors, RF component, and foundry companies in semiconductor industry. It provides its technologies under the DTS, HD Radio, IMAX Enhanced, Invensas, TiVo, and Perceive brands. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California.