MicroCloud Hologram (NASDAQ:HOLO) & ADTRAN (NASDAQ:ADTN) Financial Comparison

ADTRAN (NASDAQ:ADTN) and MicroCloud Hologram (NASDAQ:HOLO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, risk, institutional ownership and valuation.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

80.6% of ADTRAN shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.1% of MicroCloud Hologram shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of ADTRAN shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for ADTRAN and MicroCloud Hologram, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ADTRAN	1	1	3	0	2.40
MicroCloud Hologram	1	0	0	0	1.00

ADTRAN presently has a consensus price target of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 31.85%. Given ADTRAN’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ADTRAN is more favorable than MicroCloud Hologram.

Profitability

This table compares ADTRAN and MicroCloud Hologram’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ADTRAN	-8.44%	-4.63%	-0.56%
MicroCloud Hologram	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares ADTRAN and MicroCloud Hologram”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ADTRAN	$922.72 million	0.86	-$459.89 million	($1.07)	-9.21
MicroCloud Hologram	$40.76 million	0.79	-$8.89 million	($1,680.00)	0.00

MicroCloud Hologram has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ADTRAN. ADTRAN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MicroCloud Hologram, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

ADTRAN has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MicroCloud Hologram has a beta of 3.27, suggesting that its share price is 227% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

ADTRAN beats MicroCloud Hologram on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ADTRAN

ADTRAN Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides networking and communications platforms, software, systems, and services in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Network Solutions, and Services & Support. It offers residential gateways; ethernet passive optical network ONUs; gigabit passive optical network/XGS-PON ONTs; traditional SSE, routers, and switches; edge cloud; carrier ethernet network interface devices; Optical Line Terminals; Packet Aggregation, Copper Access, and Oscilloquartz; optical transport and engine solutions; infrastructure monitoring solution; and training, professional, software, and managed services. The company also provides various software, such as Mosaic One SaaS, n-Command, Procloud, MCP, AOE and ACI-E, and Ensemble Controller. It serves large, medium, and small service providers; alternative service providers, such as utilities, municipalities and fiber overbuilders; cable/MSOs; and SMBs and distributed enterprises. ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama.

About MicroCloud Hologram

MicroCloud Hologram Inc. provides holographic technology services worldwide. It operates in two segments, Holographic Solutions and Holographic Technology Service. Its services include holographic light detection and ranging (LiDAR) solutions based on holographic technology, holographic LiDAR point cloud algorithms architecture design, technical holographic imaging solutions, holographic LiDAR sensor chip design, and holographic vehicle intelligent vision technology to service customers that provide holographic advanced driver assistance systems. The company also provides holographic digital twin technology services and has a proprietary holographic digital twin technology resource library, which captures shapes and objects in 3D holographic form by utilizing a combination of holographic digital twin software, digital content, spatial data-driven data science, holographic digital cloud algorithm, and holographic 3D capture technology. In addition, it distributes holographic hardware. The company is headquartered in Shenzhen, China.