JFrog (NASDAQ:FROG – Get Free Report) and LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares JFrog and LiveRamp”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| JFrog | $531.84 million | 21.88 | -$71.82 million | ($0.37) | -255.11 |
| LiveRamp | $812.94 million | 2.88 | $145.95 million | $2.44 | 15.78 |
LiveRamp has higher revenue and earnings than JFrog. JFrog is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LiveRamp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares JFrog and LiveRamp’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| JFrog | -7.35% | -2.71% | -1.80% |
| LiveRamp | 18.71% | 9.77% | 7.41% |
Volatility and Risk
JFrog has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LiveRamp has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for JFrog and LiveRamp, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| JFrog | 1 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 2.87 |
| LiveRamp | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2.25 |
JFrog presently has a consensus target price of $109.95, indicating a potential upside of 16.49%. LiveRamp has a consensus target price of $40.21, indicating a potential upside of 4.44%. Given JFrog’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe JFrog is more favorable than LiveRamp.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
85.0% of JFrog shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.8% of LiveRamp shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of JFrog shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of LiveRamp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
LiveRamp beats JFrog on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About JFrog
JFrog Ltd. provides end-to-end hybrid software supply chain platform in the United States, Israel, India, and internationally. The company offers JFrog Artifactory, a package repository that allows teams and organizations to store, update, and manage their software packages; JFrog Curation that functions as a guardian outside the software development pipeline, controlling the admission of packages into an organization, primarily from open source or public repositories; JFrog Xray, which scans JFrog Artifactory to secure all software packages; JFrog Advanced Security, an optional add-on for select JFrog subscriptions; and JFrog Distribution that provides software package distribution. It also provides JFrog Artifactory Edge that utilizes and leverages metadata from JFrog Artifactory to facilitate the transfer of the incremental changes in software packages from their previous versions; JFrog Mission Control, a platform control panel that provides a view of moving pieces of an organization’s software supply chain workflow; JFrog Insight, a DevOps intelligence tool; JFrog Connect, a device management solution that allows companies to manage software updates and monitor performance in IoT device fleets; and JFrog Pipelines, a continuous integration and delivery tool for automating and orchestrating the movement of software packages. In addition, the company provides JFrog Pro that provides access to the universal version of JFrog Artifactory and ongoing updates, upgrades, and bug fixes; JFrog Pro X, a self-hosted-only subscription; JFrog Enterprise X, which offers cluster configuration, federated repositories, multi-region replication, larger enterprise-scale deployments, service-level agreement support, and deeper security; and JFrog Enterprise Plus, a full platform subscription option. It serves technology, financial services, retail, healthcare, and telecommunications organizations. JFrog Ltd. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
About LiveRamp
LiveRamp Holdings, Inc., a technology company, operates a data collaboration platform in the United States, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company operates LiveRamp Data Collaboration platform enables an organization to unify customer and prospect data to build a single view of the customer in a way that protects consumer privacy. Its platform supports various people-based marketing solutions, including data collaboration, activation, measurement and analytics, identity, and data marketplace. The company sells its solutions to enterprise marketers, agencies, marketing technology providers, publishers, and data providers in various industry verticals, such as financial, insurance and investment services, retail, automotive, telecommunications, high tech, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, travel, entertainment, and non-profit. The company was formerly known as Acxiom Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. in October 2018. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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