Phunware (NASDAQ:PHUN – Get Free Report) and Braze (NASDAQ:BRZE – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Profitability
This table compares Phunware and Braze’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Phunware | -471.72% | -13.79% | -12.37% |
| Braze | -13.55% | -16.11% | -8.86% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Phunware and Braze, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Phunware | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| Braze | 1 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 2.86 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
7.6% of Phunware shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Braze shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Phunware shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.5% of Braze shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility and Risk
Phunware has a beta of 2.61, indicating that its stock price is 161% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Braze has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Phunware and Braze”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Phunware | $2.75 million | 14.62 | -$11.40 million | ($0.65) | -3.02 |
| Braze | $834.24 million | 3.31 | -$131.29 million | ($1.03) | -23.78 |
Phunware has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Braze. Braze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Phunware, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Braze beats Phunware on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Phunware
Phunware, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated software platform that equips companies with the products, solutions, and services to engage, manage, and monetize their mobile application portfolios in the United States and internationally. The company's products and services include mobile software and application transaction solutions comprise integration of software development kit (SDK) licenses, which consists of analytics that offers data related to application use and engagement; content management that allows application administrators to create and manage app content in a cloud-based portal; alerts, notifications, and messaging, which enables brands to send messages; marketing automation that enables location-triggered messages and workflow; advertising; and location-based services, such as mapping, navigation, wayfinding, workflow, asset management, and policy enforcement. It is also involved in the integration of its SDK licenses into existing applications maintained by its customers, as well as custom application development and support services; and provision of cloud-based vertical solutions for healthcare, retail, sports, aviation, real estate, hospitality, education, and other applications, as well as application transactions, including re-occurring and one-time transactional media purchases for application discovery, user acquisition and audience building, audience engagement, and audience monetization. Phunware, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
About Braze
Braze, Inc. operates a customer engagement platform that provides interactions between consumers and brands worldwide. The company offers Braze software development kits that automatically manage data ingestion and deliver mobile and web notifications, in-application/in-browser interstitial messages, and content cards; REST API that can be used to import or export data or to trigger workflows between Braze and brands' existing technology stacks; Partner Data Integrations, which allow brands to sync user cohorts from partners; Data Transformation, in which brands can programmatically sync and transform user data; and Braze Cloud Data Ingestion that enables brands to harness their customer data. It also offers classification products, including segmentation that can define reusable segments of consumers based upon attributes, events, or predictive propensity scores; segment insights, which allows customers to analyze how segments are performing relative to each other across a set of pre-selected key performance indicators; and predictive suite that allows customers to identify groups of consumers that are of critical business value. In addition, the company provides Canvas, an orchestration tool that allows customers to create journeys, mapping out multi-steps, and cross-channel messaging experiences; campaigns, which allows customers to send one set of single-channel or multi-channel messages to be delivered to customers in a particular user segment; event and API triggering; marketing pressure management; and reporting and analytics. Further, it offers personalization products, such as liquid templating platform, connected content platform, content blocks, intelligent timing and channel, personalized variant, and AI item recommendations, and catalogs; and action products. The company was formerly known as Appboy, Inc. and changed its name to Braze, Inc. in November 2017. Braze, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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