Digital Turbine (APPS) versus The Competition Head to Head Comparison

Digital Turbine (NASDAQ:APPS) is one of 953 public companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Digital Turbine to related businesses based on the strength of its dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and risk.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Digital Turbine and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Digital Turbine	$565.25 million	-$37.73 million	-37.61
Digital Turbine Competitors	$1.80 billion	$385.91 million	110.23

Digital Turbine’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Digital Turbine. Digital Turbine is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

63.7% of Digital Turbine shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.0% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of Digital Turbine shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by 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 Digital Turbine and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Digital Turbine	-4.46%	38.34%	8.27%
Digital Turbine Competitors	-612.70%	20.86%	-8.99%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Digital Turbine and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Digital Turbine	1	2	6	0	2.56
Digital Turbine Competitors	5729	21452	44733	1492	2.57

Digital Turbine presently has a consensus target price of $15.42, indicating a potential upside of 57.67%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 25.82%. Given Digital Turbine’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Digital Turbine is more favorable than its rivals.

Risk and Volatility

Digital Turbine has a beta of 3.01, meaning that its stock price is 201% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Digital Turbine’s rivals have a beta of 1.19, meaning that their average stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Digital Turbine beats its rivals on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

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.