Agora (NASDAQ:API – Get Free Report) and Sprinklr (NYSE:CXM – Get Free Report) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Agora and Sprinklr”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Agora | $141.06 million | 2.56 | $9.53 million | $0.11 | 37.55 |
| Sprinklr | $857.20 million | 1.91 | $22.91 million | $0.12 | 58.10 |
Risk and Volatility
Agora has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sprinklr has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
40.4% of Agora shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.2% of Sprinklr shares are held by institutional investors. 14.6% of Agora shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.2% of Sprinklr shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Agora and Sprinklr’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Agora | 7.23% | 1.96% | 1.52% |
| Sprinklr | 3.29% | 8.13% | 4.03% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Agora and Sprinklr, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Agora | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Sprinklr | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
Agora currently has a consensus target price of $6.80, indicating a potential upside of 64.65%. Sprinklr has a consensus target price of $7.79, indicating a potential upside of 11.67%. Given Agora’s higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Agora is more favorable than Sprinklr.
Summary
Sprinklr beats Agora on 8 of the 13 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 Sprinklr
Sprinklr, Inc. provides enterprise cloud software products worldwide. The company operates Unified Customer Experience Management platform, a software that enables customer-facing teams to collaborate across internal silos, communicate across digital channels, and leverage a complete suite of capabilities to deliver customer experiences. Its products include Sprinklr Service, a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) powered products and solutions that unifies customer service across voice, digital, and social channels; Sprinklr Social, a suite of AI-powered products and solutions that unifies social media publishing and engagement across various channels; Sprinklr Insights, a suite of AI-powered products and solutions that unifies consumer, customer, competitive and industry data from a high volume of third-party, second-party and first-party sources; and Sprinklr Marketing, a suite of AI-powered products and solutions that unifies content production and content lifecycle management with paid campaign orchestration across various channels. The company also provides professional, managed, training, and consultancy services. Sprinklr, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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