Cyxtera Technologies (NASDAQ:CYXT – Get Rating) and Similarweb (NYSE:SMWB – Get Rating) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Cyxtera Technologies and Similarweb's top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
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| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio |
| Cyxtera Technologies | $703.70 million | 0.48 | -$257.90 million | ($1.21) | -1.55 |
| Similarweb | $137.67 million | 2.84 | -$68.98 million | ($1.23) | -4.28 |
Similarweb has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cyxtera Technologies. Similarweb is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cyxtera Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Cyxtera Technologies and Similarweb, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score |
| Cyxtera Technologies | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2.88 |
| Similarweb | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3.00 |
Cyxtera Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $8.39, suggesting a potential upside of 346.43%. Similarweb has a consensus target price of $13.40, suggesting a potential upside of 154.75%. Given Cyxtera Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cyxtera Technologies is more favorable than Similarweb.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
36.9% of Similarweb shares are held by institutional investors. 73.2% of Cyxtera Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Volatility and Risk
Cyxtera Technologies has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Similarweb has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Cyxtera Technologies and Similarweb's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets |
| Cyxtera Technologies | -28.78% | -29.61% | -5.85% |
| Similarweb | -50.80% | -141.06% | -36.14% |
Summary
Cyxtera Technologies beats Similarweb on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Cyxtera Technologies
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Cyxtera Technologies, Inc. provides various data center products and services for enterprises, service providers, and government agencies. It offers retail colocation, interconnection, deployment, and support services; and Bare Metal, an on-demand IT infrastructure solution. The company is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.
About Similarweb
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Similarweb Ltd. provides a platform for digital intelligence in the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, the United Kingdom, Israel, and internationally. It offers digital research intelligence solutions that allow senior leaders, strategy, business intelligence, and consumer insights teams to benchmark performance against competitors and market leaders, analyze trends in the market, conduct deeper research into specific companies, and analyze audience behavior; and digital marketing solutions, which enable marketing leaders, search engine optimization, and content managers, pay-per-click, performance marketers, affiliate marketers, and media buyers to understand their competitors' online acquisition strategies in each marketing channel. The company also provides shopper intelligence solutions that allows digital commerce leadership, and category and product managers to analyze a view of their customers' digital journeys, monitor consumer demand, increase brand visibility in the search process, and optimize category and product level conversion in the purchase process; and sales intelligence solutions, which enables sales management and operations, sales representatives, and account management teams to access relevant buying signals and digital insights of their customers in to generate leads quickly. In addition, it offers investor intelligence solution that allows portfolio managers, investment professionals, data scientists, and research analysts to access an end-to-end view of market, sector or company performance to ideate and monitor investment opportunities, forecast market performance, and perform due diligence. The company serves retail, consumer packaged goods, travel, consumer finance, business-to-business software, and logistics companies; and consultancies, marketing and advertising agencies, media and publishers, payment processors, and institutional investors. Similarweb Ltd. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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