Patria Investments (NYSE:PAX – Get Free Report) and Deutsche Boerse (OTCMKTS:DBOEY – Get Free Report) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends and earnings.
Volatility & Risk
Patria Investments has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Deutsche Boerse has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
96.3% of Patria Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. 58.1% of Patria Investments shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Dividends
Profitability
This table compares Patria Investments and Deutsche Boerse’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Patria Investments | 19.91% | 38.68% | 15.84% |
| Deutsche Boerse | 33.04% | 20.33% | 0.64% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Patria Investments and Deutsche Boerse, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Patria Investments | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.60 |
| Deutsche Boerse | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2.33 |
Patria Investments presently has a consensus target price of $12.75, indicating a potential upside of 26.74%. Given Patria Investments’ higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Patria Investments is more favorable than Deutsche Boerse.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Patria Investments and Deutsche Boerse”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Patria Investments | $399.23 million | 1.68 | $73.40 million | $0.44 | 22.86 |
| Deutsche Boerse | $6.82 billion | 8.60 | $2.26 billion | $1.36 | 23.90 |
Deutsche Boerse has higher revenue and earnings than Patria Investments. Patria Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Deutsche Boerse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Deutsche Boerse beats Patria Investments on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Patria Investments
Patria Investments Limited operates as a private market investment firm focused on investing in Latin America. The company offers asset management services to investors focusing on private equity funds, infrastructure development funds, co-investments funds, constructivist equity funds, and real estate and credit funds. Patria Investments Limited was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Grand Cayman, the Cayman Islands.
About Deutsche Boerse
Deutsche Börse AG operates as an exchange organization in Europe, America, and the Asia-Pacific. The company operates through four segments: Data & Analytics; Trading & Clearing; Fund Services; and Securities Services. It engages in the trading of derivatives, electricity and gas products, emission rights, foreign exchange, and commodity products; operating EEX and 360T over the counter trading platform for financial instruments, such as foreign exchange, money market, and interest rate products; and operating as a central counterparty. The company also operates in the cash market through Xetra, Börse Frankfurt, and Tradegate trading venues; Qontigo, an integrated suite of front-to-back investment management solution; and a central counterparty for equities and bonds, as well as provides pre-ipo and listing services. In addition, it offers custody and settlement services for securities; investment fund services; connectivity services; and global securities funding and financing, and collateral and liquidity management, as well as secured money, market transaction, and repos and securities lending transaction services. Further, the company provides order routing, settlement, asset management, and custody; investment distribution and placement; infrastructure and post-trading; index, analytics, and risk; securities transactions settlement; securities custody and administration; and market data and analytics services. Additionally, it operates third clearing house Nodal Clear; and specialized software as a service platform for trading participants and digital business platform, as well as offers information technology solutions, including financial market, commodities market, and network connectivity solutions under the Deutsche Börse and 7 Market Technology brands. The company was founded in 1585 and is headquartered in Eschborn, Germany.
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