Analyzing Digital Turbine (NASDAQ:APPS) and Cirata (OTCMKTS:WANSF)

Cirata (OTCMKTS:WANSF) and Digital Turbine (NASDAQ:APPS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares Cirata and Digital Turbine’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cirata	N/A	N/A	N/A
Digital Turbine	-14.59%	12.12%	2.27%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

63.7% of Digital Turbine shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Digital Turbine shares are held 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.

Risk and Volatility

Cirata has a beta of -18.69, suggesting that its stock price is 1,969% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Digital Turbine has a beta of 2.3, suggesting that its stock price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Cirata and Digital Turbine, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cirata	0	0	0	0	0.00
Digital Turbine	1	1	1	1	2.50

Digital Turbine has a consensus target price of $7.75, indicating a potential upside of 54.69%. Given Digital Turbine’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Digital Turbine is more favorable than Cirata.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Cirata and Digital Turbine”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cirata	$7.68 million	4.32	-$13.51 million	N/A	N/A
Digital Turbine	$490.51 million	1.15	-$92.10 million	($0.73)	-6.86

Cirata has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Digital Turbine.

Summary

Digital Turbine beats Cirata on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Cirata

Cirata plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development and provision of collaboration software in North America, Europe, China, and internationally. The company provides Data Migrator, an automated solution that moves on-premises HDFS data, Hive metadata, local filesystem, or cloud data sources to any cloud or on-premises environment; and Data Migrator for Hadoop, a cloud migration solution that automates the seamless transfer of HDFS data and Hive metadata to the cloud. It also offers Access Control Plus, an access control solution, that enables project administrators to manage the complexity of complete and proper authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ) configuration file generation; and Gerrit MultiSite, a development team collaboration solution, which enables replication of Gerrit server and packaged in a simple to deploy and maintain format. In addition, the company provides Git MultiSite and Subversion MultiSite Plus solutions enable distributed teams to collaborate as one with no downtime, no disruption, and consistent security policy enforcement across all locations. It offers its solutions for automotive, telecommunications, and financial service industries. The company was formerly known as WANdisco plc and changed its name to Cirata plc in October 2023. Cirata plc was incorporated in 2012 and is based in St. Helier, Jersey.

About Digital Turbine

Digital Turbine, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates a mobile growth platform for advertisers, publishers, carriers, and device original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The company operates through two segments, On Device Solutions and App Growth Platform. Its application media platform delivers mobile applications to various publishers, carriers, OEMs, and devices; and content media platform offers news, weather, sports, and other content, as well as programmatic advertising and media content delivery services, and sponsored and editorial content media. The company also provides direct campaign management products, such as the DT DSP and DT Offer Wall; ad monetization solutions allow mobile app publishers and developers to monetize their monthly active users via display, native, and video advertising; brands and agencies runs mobile brand-awareness campaigns on the direct mobile app inventory; and app developers and other performance-focused advertisers execute mobile user acquisition campaigns for their apps and products. It operates in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, China, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.