Financial Survey: Chineseinvestors.Com (OTCMKTS:CIIX) vs. Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM)

Chineseinvestors.Com (OTCMKTS:CIIX) and Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

94.3% of Akamai Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Akamai Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Chineseinvestors.Com and Akamai Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Chineseinvestors.Com	N/A	N/A	N/A
Akamai Technologies	12.26%	14.16%	6.33%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Chineseinvestors.Com and Akamai Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Chineseinvestors.Com	0	0	0	0	0.00
Akamai Technologies	4	10	7	0	2.14

Akamai Technologies has a consensus target price of $96.11, indicating a potential upside of 1.08%. Given Akamai Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Akamai Technologies is more favorable than Chineseinvestors.Com.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Chineseinvestors.Com and Akamai Technologies”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Chineseinvestors.Com	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Akamai Technologies	$3.99 billion	3.43	$504.92 million	$3.41	27.88

Akamai Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Chineseinvestors.Com.

Summary

Akamai Technologies beats Chineseinvestors.Com on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Chineseinvestors.Com

Chineseinvestors.com, Inc. engages in the provision of Chinese language web-based real-time financial information. Its services include real-time market commentary, analysis, and educational-related services in Chinese language character sets, support services, consultancy services to smaller private companies considering becoming a public company, and advertising and public relation-related support services. The company was founded by Wei Wang on January 6, 1997 and is headquartered in San Gabriel, CA.

About Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides cloud computing, security, and content delivery services in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud solutions to keep infrastructure, websites, applications, application programming interfaces, and users safe from various cyberattacks and online threats while enhancing performance. It also provides web and mobile performance solutions to enable dynamic websites and applications; media delivery solutions, including video streaming and video player services, game and software delivery, broadcast operations, authoritative domain name system, resolution, and data and analytics; and cloud computing services, such as compute, storage, networking, database, and container management services to build, deploy, and secure applications and workloads. In addition, the company offers content delivery solutions; and an array of service and support to assist customers with integrating, configuring, optimizing, and managing its offerings. It sells its solutions through various channel partners. Akamai Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.