Agora (NASDAQ:API – Get Free Report) and DIH Holding US (OTCMKTS:DHAI – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Risk and Volatility
Agora has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DIH Holding US has a beta of -0.36, suggesting that its share price is 136% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Agora and DIH Holding US’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Agora | 6.75% | 1.68% | 1.35% |
| DIH Holding US | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Agora | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| DIH Holding US | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Agora and DIH Holding US”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Agora | $141.06 million | 2.25 | $9.53 million | $0.09 | 40.44 |
| DIH Holding US | $62.86 million | 0.00 | -$8.68 million | ($6.30) | 0.00 |
Agora has higher revenue and earnings than DIH Holding US. DIH Holding US is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agora, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
40.4% of Agora shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.8% of DIH Holding US shares are held by institutional investors. 14.6% of Agora shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.0% of DIH Holding US 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.
Summary
Agora beats DIH Holding US on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Agora
Agora, Inc. operates in real-time engagement technology business in the People's Republic of China, the United States, and internationally. The company offers real-time engagement platform-as-a-services providing developers with application programming interfaces to embed real-time voice, video, interactive live-streaming, chat, whiteboard, and artificial intelligence capabilities into their applications. It also provides video and voice calling, interactive live and broadcast streaming, chat, signaling, and interactive whiteboard products; and extensions, such as analytics, recording, AI noise suppression, 3D spatial audio, real-time transcription, and extensions marketplace. In addition, the company offers Application Platforms, including Flexible Classroom, a low-code application Platform as a Service, which combines video, voice, chat, signaling, whiteboard and recording functionalities into an integrated cloud-based solution for education providers; and App Builder, a no-code application platform, designed for developers with little or no coding experience to build their own applications with video conference and live streaming functionalities. It operates through Agora and Shengwang brands. Agora, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
About DIH Holding US
DIH Holding US, Inc. operates as a robotics and virtual reality (VR) technology provider for the rehabilitation industry in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the United States, and the Asia Pacific. It offers ArmeoPower, a backbone robot for arm and hand therapy in an early stage of rehabilitation; ArmeoSpring for less severe patients that provides self-initiated repetitive arm and hand therapy in an extensive workspace; ArmeoSpring Pro; and Armeo Senso, for patients self-initiated and still structurally controlled movement patterns to completely open movement. The company also provides lower extremity products, including Erigo for gradual verticalization, leg mobilization, and intensive sensorimotor stimulation through cyclic leg loading; Lokomat, a robot-assisted therapy that enables training to increase the strength of muscles and a range of motion of joints in order to improve walking; Andago, a robotics smart control system that assists patients in walking naturally; C-Mill, creates a training environment; CAREN, a computer assisted rehabilitation environment; and GRAIL, an gait real-time analysis interactive lab solution for analysis training and research. In addition, it offers SafeGait, RYSEN, and M-Gait for gait and balance; and HocoNet and D-Flow software. DIH Holding US, Inc. was founded in 2021 and is based in Norwell, Massachusetts.
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