Reviewing SailPoint (NASDAQ:SAIL) and Viant Technology (NASDAQ:DSP)

Viant Technology (NASDAQ:DSP) and SailPoint (NASDAQ:SAIL) are both technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

11.4% of Viant Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.4% of Viant Technology shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of SailPoint shares are owned by 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 Viant Technology and SailPoint’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Viant Technology	2.24%	4.23%	2.71%
SailPoint	-16.92%	2.44%	2.21%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Viant Technology and SailPoint, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Viant Technology	0	1	6	1	3.00
SailPoint	1	5	19	0	2.72

Viant Technology currently has a consensus price target of $18.33, indicating a potential upside of 42.23%. SailPoint has a consensus price target of $21.12, indicating a potential upside of 7.00%. Given Viant Technology’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Viant Technology is more favorable than SailPoint.

Volatility & Risk

Viant Technology has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SailPoint has a beta of 2.17, meaning that its share price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Viant Technology and SailPoint”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Viant Technology	$344.20 million	2.49	$8.35 million	$0.31	41.58
SailPoint	$1.07 billion	10.52	-$270.05 million	($0.34)	-58.05

Viant Technology has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SailPoint. SailPoint is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Viant Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Viant Technology beats SailPoint on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Viant Technology

Viant Technology Inc. operates as an advertising technology company. It provides Household ID, a people-based innovation that combines digital and personal identifiers into a normalized household profile; AI Bid Optimizer, solution that uses AI to analyze historical bid opportunities to predict the lowest media cost for desired advertisement; and Viant Data Platform, which offers marketers control over their own data with actionable insights into their marketing initiatives within a single platform. The company also offers Holistic, an omnichannel DSP for marketers and their agencies to manage omnichannel campaigns and access metrics from each channel to inform decisions in other channels; Viant Identity Graph, which reduces or eliminates the need for cookies by enabling matching of people-based identifiers that anchor digital identifiers that allows marketers to reach targeted consumers in a privacy-conscious manner; and Direct Access, a path optimization program. In addition, it provides campaign analysis and data intelligence tool that empowers customers with differentiated insights, including conversion lift, multi-touch attribution, foot-traffic data reports, digital-out-of-home lift, sales reporting, and ROAS analytics; and self-service platform that provides customers with transparency and control over their advertising campaigns and underlying data infrastructure. The company sells its platform through a direct sales team focused on business development in various markets. It serves purchasers of programmatic advertising inventory; and large, independent, and mid-market advertising agencies, as well as marketers. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

About SailPoint

SailPoint, Inc. delivers solutions to enable comprehensive identity security for the enterprise. Its solutions enable organizations to establish, control, and automate policies that help them define and maintain a robust security posture and achieve regulatory compliance. The company was founded by Mark David McClain in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.