Head to Head Survey: Agora (NASDAQ:API) and OneStream (NASDAQ:OS)

OneStream (NASDAQ:OS) and Agora (NASDAQ:API) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and risk.

Risk and Volatility

OneStream has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Agora has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares OneStream and Agora”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
OneStream	$601.93 million	9.80	-$50.30 million	($0.28)	-85.71
Agora	$141.06 million	2.75	$9.53 million	$0.11	40.32

Agora has lower revenue, but higher earnings than OneStream. OneStream is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agora, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

40.4% of Agora shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.8% of OneStream shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for OneStream and Agora, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
OneStream	3	17	0	0	1.85
Agora	0	2	1	0	2.33

OneStream currently has a consensus target price of $24.06, indicating a potential upside of 0.26%. Agora has a consensus target price of $6.80, indicating a potential upside of 53.33%. Given Agora’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Agora is more favorable than OneStream.

Profitability

This table compares OneStream and Agora’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
OneStream	-8.36%	11.28%	6.68%
Agora	7.23%	1.96%	1.52%

Summary

Agora beats OneStream on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About OneStream

OneStream, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) based enterprise finance platform. The firm offers Digital Finance Cloud, an AI-enabled and extensible software platform that unifies core financial functions and operational data and processes. The company was founded by Craig Colby and Thomas Shea on October 15, 2021 and is headquartered in Birmingham, MI.

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.