Analyzing Zvelo (OTCMKTS:ZVLO) & WEBTOON Entertainment (NASDAQ:WBTN)

WEBTOON Entertainment (NASDAQ:WBTN) and Zvelo (OTCMKTS:ZVLO) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.

Volatility & Risk

WEBTOON Entertainment has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zvelo has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares WEBTOON Entertainment and Zvelo’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
WEBTOON Entertainment	-9.28%	-2.14%	-1.67%
Zvelo	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares WEBTOON Entertainment and Zvelo”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
WEBTOON Entertainment	$1.35 billion	1.28	-$143.90 million	($1.01)	-13.05
Zvelo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Zvelo has lower revenue, but higher earnings than WEBTOON Entertainment.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for WEBTOON Entertainment and Zvelo, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
WEBTOON Entertainment	1	4	4	0	2.33
Zvelo	0	0	0	0	0.00

WEBTOON Entertainment presently has a consensus price target of $17.33, suggesting a potential upside of 31.51%. Given WEBTOON Entertainment’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe WEBTOON Entertainment is more favorable than Zvelo.

Summary

WEBTOON Entertainment beats Zvelo on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About WEBTOON Entertainment

WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. operates a storytelling platform worldwide. The company’s platform allows a community of creators and users to discover, create, and share new content. Its platform offers stories primarily in two ways, including web-comics, a graphical comic-like medium; and web-novels, which are text-based stories. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. is a subsidiary of NAVER Corporation.

About Zvelo

zvelo, Inc. provides Website content and contextual categorization, and malicious and botnet detection products. It offers Web filtering, brand safety, semantic targeting, traffic quality analysis, contextual targeting, and ad fraud prevention solutions for network security and mobile service providers, and subscriber analytics. The company was formerly known as eSoft, Inc. and changed its name to zvelo, Inc. in September 2010. zvelo, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado.