Cango (NYSE:CANG – Get Free Report) and QuoteMedia (OTCMKTS:QMCI – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Cango and QuoteMedia”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Cango | $110.21 million | 2.89 | $41.07 million | ($2.88) | -1.06 |
| QuoteMedia | $18.74 million | 0.64 | -$1.33 million | ($0.03) | -4.43 |
Risk and Volatility
Cango has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QuoteMedia has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings for Cango and QuoteMedia, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Cango | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| QuoteMedia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Cango currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 161.10%. Given Cango’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cango is more favorable than QuoteMedia.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
4.2% of Cango shares are held by institutional investors. 29.1% of Cango shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.1% of QuoteMedia shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Cango and QuoteMedia’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Cango | -80.60% | -2.37% | -1.54% |
| QuoteMedia | -12.55% | N/A | -33.71% |
Summary
Cango beats QuoteMedia on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Cango
Cango Inc. operates an automotive transaction service platform that connects dealers, original equipment manufacturers, financial institutions, car buyers, insurance brokers, and companies in the People's Republic of China. The company offers automobile trading solutions comprising car sourcing, transaction facilitation, logistics, and warehousing support for dealers through Cango Haoche app that offers new car transaction services, and Cango U-Car app that offers used-car transaction services. It also provides automotive financing facilitation services that include facilitating financing transactions from financial institutions to car buyers, which comprises credit origination, credit assessment, credit servicing, and delinquent asset management services; facilitating financing transactions of car purchases for car buyers; and after-market services to car buyers, which includes facilitating the sale of insurance policies from insurance brokers or companies. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.
About QuoteMedia
QuoteMedia, Inc. provides financial data, market research information, analytics, news feeds, and financial software solutions to online brokerages, banks, clearing firms, financial service companies, media portals, and public corporations worldwide. It collects, aggregates, and delivers delayed and real-time financial data content through the Internet. The company also offers market information and services, including streaming stock market data feeds, research and analysis information, content applications, portfolio management systems, software products, corporate investor relations provisioning, news services, mobile apps, and custom development. In addition, its data feeds coverage includes equities, options, futures, commodities, currencies, mutual funds, ETFs, and indices. Further, the company provides financial data delivery application products and components comprising quote modules, charts, market movers, news, watch lists, tickers, market summaries, option chains, filings, fundamentals, investor relations solutions, stock and fund screeners, and others; and QMod, a web delivery system for delivering market data content to Web platforms. Additionally, it offers portfolio managements systems, including Quotestream Desktop, We, and Mobile, a Web-delivered, embedded application providing real-time, tick-by-tick, streaming market quotes and research information; Quotestream Professional that offers low-latency tick-by-tick data, customizable screens, advanced charting, comprehensive technical analysis, news, and research data for financial services professionals; Web Portfolio Manager, which provides immediate web access to detailed quote data, market and company news, charting, depth/level II, filings, historical data, snap quotes, and others; and Quotestream Connect that delivers real time data feeds to individual users to power third party applications. The company was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
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