Contrasting Atos (OTCMKTS:AEXAY) & Taboola.com (NASDAQ:TBLA)

Atos (OTCMKTS:AEXAY) and Taboola.com (NASDAQ:TBLA) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Atos and Taboola.com, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Atos	0	0	0	0	0.00
Taboola.com	0	2	4	0	2.67

Taboola.com has a consensus price target of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 33.53%. Given Taboola.com’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Taboola.com is more favorable than Atos.

Profitability

This table compares Atos and Taboola.com’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atos	N/A	N/A	N/A
Taboola.com	0.75%	5.27%	3.21%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

42.9% of Taboola.com shares are held by institutional investors. 24.7% of Taboola.com shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Atos and Taboola.com”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Atos	$11.57 billion	954.09	-$3.72 billion	N/A	N/A
Taboola.com	$1.77 billion	0.51	-$3.76 million	$0.04	84.25

Taboola.com has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Atos.

Volatility & Risk

Atos has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Taboola.com has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Taboola.com beats Atos on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Atos

Atos SE provides digital transformation solutions and services worldwide. It offers advanced computing solutions; analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation solutions; cloud solutions; customer journey analytics and digital customer experience; decarbonization solutions; digital consulting; digital workplace solutions; edge computing and Internet of things solutions; and modern applications and platforms. The company also provides advance detection and response, data protection and governance, digital workplace security, IoT and OT security, trusted digital identities, and cybersecurity solutions; and infrastructure and foundation services. It serves financial services and insurance, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, public sector and defense, resources and services, and telecommunication and media industries. The company was incorporated in 1982 and is headquartered in Bezons, France.

About Taboola.com

Taboola.com Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, operates an artificial intelligence-based algorithmic engine platform in Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and internationally. It offers Taboola, a platform that partners with websites, devices, and mobile apps to recommend editorial content and advertisements on the open web to users. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, New York.