ON24 (NYSE:ONTF – Get Rating) and Micro Focus International (NYSE:MFGP – Get Rating) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares ON24 and Micro Focus International's revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Get ON24 alerts:| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| ON24 | $203.61 million | 2.15 | -$24.26 million | ($1.16) | -7.94 |
| Micro Focus International | $2.90 billion | 0.76 | -$424.40 million | N/A | N/A |
ON24 has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Micro Focus International.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
78.6% of ON24 shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of Micro Focus International shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.4% of ON24 shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Micro Focus International shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.Profitability
This table compares ON24 and Micro Focus International's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| ON24 | -28.31% | -16.40% | -11.93% |
| Micro Focus International | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for ON24 and Micro Focus International, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| ON24 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Micro Focus International | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
ON24 currently has a consensus price target of $12.75, suggesting a potential upside of 38.44%. Given ON24's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe ON24 is more favorable than Micro Focus International.
Summary
ON24 beats Micro Focus International on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
About ON24
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ON24, Inc. provides a cloud-based digital experience platform that enables businesses to convert customer engagement into revenue through interactive webinar, virtual event, and multimedia content experiences worldwide. The company provides ON24 Experience products, such as ON24 Elite, a live and interactive webinar experience; ON24 Breakouts, a live breakout room experience that facilitates networking, collaboration and interactivity between users; ON24 Go Live, a live, interactive video event experience that enables presenters and attendees to engage face-to-face in real-time; ON24 Virtual Confrence, a live and large scale virtual event experience; ON24 Engagement Hub, a rich multimedia content experience; and ON24 Target, a personalized and curated rich multimedia content experience, as well as solutions; ON24 Intelligence, an analytics backbone that captures first-person data to power the insights, benchmarking, reporting, and artificial intelligence and machine learning engine; and ON24 Connect, an ecosystem of third-party application integrations. It also offers professional services, such as experience management, monitoring, premium support, and implementation and other services. The company sells its products through direct sales. It serves technology, financial services, healthcare, industrial and manufacturing, professional services, and business-to-business information service industries. The company was formerly known as NewsDirect, Inc. and changed its name to ON24, Inc. in December 1998. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
About Micro Focus International
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Micro Focus International plc operates in the enterprise software business in the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Canada, France, Japan, and internationally. It offers infrastructure software products that are managed on a portfolio. The company's product portfolio includes sector-agnostic products, such as application modernization and connectivity solutions that help customers to unlock the value from core business applications for modernization, which enable a transformational journey to deliver ongoing value and flexibility from IT investments, on or off the mainframe; application delivery management solutions that helps customers to increase velocity, remove bottlenecks, and deliver high-performing applications to support their digital business; and IT operations management solutions for service assurance, automate the service fulfilment life cycle, and strengthen IT service governance. It also offers CyberRes, a security solution that helps enterprises to create cyber resilience through detecting threats, securing data and applications, and protecting identities, which enables customers to adapt and evolve for the future; and information management and governance solutions that helps customers to analyze, understand, and control data to derive value and manage enterprise risk. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Newbury, the United Kingdom.
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