Financial Contrast: Fujitsu (OTCMKTS:FJTSY) vs. TaskUs (NASDAQ:TASK)

Fujitsu (OTCMKTS:FJTSY) and TaskUs (NASDAQ:TASK) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and profitability.

Risk & Volatility

Fujitsu has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TaskUs has a beta of 2.16, meaning that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Fujitsu and TaskUs, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Fujitsu	0	0	0	0	0.00
TaskUs	0	5	1	1	2.43

TaskUs has a consensus target price of $16.88, indicating a potential downside of 1.72%. Given TaskUs’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe TaskUs is more favorable than Fujitsu.

Profitability

This table compares Fujitsu and TaskUs’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fujitsu	8.72%	17.48%	9.63%
TaskUs	5.70%	20.37%	10.72%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Fujitsu and TaskUs”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Fujitsu	$23.31 billion	2.05	$1.45 billion	N/A	N/A
TaskUs	$994.98 million	1.55	$45.87 million	$0.69	24.88

Fujitsu has higher revenue and earnings than TaskUs.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.1% of Fujitsu shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.6% of TaskUs shares are held by institutional investors. 30.6% of TaskUs shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

TaskUs beats Fujitsu on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu Limited operates as an information and communication technology company in Japan and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Technology Solutions, Ubiquitous Solutions, and Device Solutions. The company offers multi cloud and hybrid IT services; assessment and consultative services; SAP landscape transformation services; new workplace; datacentre products comprising integrated systems, storage solutions, servers, network switches, and infrastructure management; workplace products including notebooks, tablet PC’s, desktop PC’s, workstations, thin clients, displays, and peripheral devices; consumption based IT services; installation and implementation services; and hardware, software, and infrastructure support services, as well as electronic devices, air conditioning products, and network solutions. It also provides cyber security solutions, including cyber security consulting, managed security servies, and security operation and advanced threat centers; internet of things, artificial intelligence platform and solutions; and software products comprising FUJITSU Software Infrastructure Manager and FUJITSU Software ServerView Suite. Further, the company offers electronic components, such as semiconductor packages and batteries. It serves automotive, manufacturing, retail, financial services, transport, telecommunications, healthcare, and energy and utilities industries; the public sectors; and services providers. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

About TaskUs

TaskUs, Inc. provides digital outsourcing services for companies in Philippines, the United States, India, and internationally. It offers digital customer experience that consists of omni-channel customer care services primarily delivered through non-voice digital channels; and other solutions, including experience and customer care services for new product or market launches, and customer acquisition solutions. The company also provides trust and safety solutions, such as review and disposition of user and advertiser generated visual, text, and audio content, which include removal or labeling of policy violating, and offensive or misleading content, as well as risk management, compliance, identity management, and fraud services; and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that consist of data labeling, annotation, context relevance, and transcription services for training and tuning machine learning algorithms that enables to develop AI systems. It serves clients in various industry segments comprising e-commerce, FinTech, food delivery and ride sharing, gaming, technology, HealthTech, social media, and streaming media. The company was formerly known as TU TopCo, Inc. and changed its name to TaskUs, Inc. in December 2020. TaskUs, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New Braunfels, Texas.