Head to Head Review: AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) and authID (NASDAQ:AUID)

authID (NASDAQ:AUID) and AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares authID and AvePoint”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
authID	$890,000.00	26.28	-$14.28 million	($1.60)	-1.09
AvePoint	$330.48 million	8.22	-$29.09 million	N/A	N/A

authID has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AvePoint.

Profitability

This table compares authID and AvePoint’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
authID	-728.89%	-180.17%	-145.07%
AvePoint	0.55%	0.66%	0.40%

Risk & Volatility

authID has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AvePoint has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for authID and AvePoint, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
authID	0	0	0	0	0.00
AvePoint	0	5	9	1	2.73

AvePoint has a consensus target price of $18.66, indicating a potential upside of 48.24%. Given AvePoint’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe AvePoint is more favorable than authID.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

8.8% of authID shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.5% of AvePoint shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of authID shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.2% of AvePoint shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

AvePoint beats authID on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About authID

authID Inc. provides secure, biometric, identity verification, and strong passwordless and biometric authentication for consumer and workforce applications worldwide. The company offers solutions through its Verified platform to enable their users to easily verify and authenticate their identity through a mobile device or desktop. It provides Biometric Identity Verification, which establishes the trusted identity of users based on a variety of ground truth sources, including chip-based electronic machine-readable travel documents, national IDs, and driver's licenses; Human Factor Authentication that delivers trusted FIDO2 strong authentication for device-based passwordless login and transaction authentication that is tied to a trusted identity; Cloud-Based Biometric Multi-Factor Authentication, which provides any bank, enterprise, or government department a secure and convenient application for identity verification and transaction consent as part of any type of electronic transaction; and Identity – Portal that enables enterprises to get started with its identity products without any integration. The company also offers SEARCH, a biometric matching software for desktop fingerprint capture and image processing. The company was formerly known as Ipsidy Inc. and changed its name to authID Inc. authID Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

About AvePoint

AvePoint, Inc. provides cloud-native data management software platform in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. It also offers software-as-a-service solutions and productivity applications. The company offers modularity and cloud services architecture to address critical challenges and the management of data to organizations that leverage third-party cloud vendors, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, AWS, Box, DropBox, and others; license and support; and maintenance services. AvePoint, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.