Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ:IAS – Get Free Report) and Nexxen International (NASDAQ:NEXN – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
95.8% of Integral Ad Science shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% of Nexxen International shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Integral Ad Science shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Integral Ad Science and Nexxen International, as reported by MarketBeat.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
Integral Ad Science | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 2.77 |
Nexxen International | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2.75 |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Integral Ad Science and Nexxen International’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
Integral Ad Science | $474.37 million | 3.35 | $7.24 million | $0.04 | 248.81 |
Nexxen International | $331.99 million | 1.16 | -$21.49 million | ($0.15) | -36.80 |
Integral Ad Science has higher revenue and earnings than Nexxen International. Nexxen International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Integral Ad Science, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Integral Ad Science has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nexxen International has a beta of 1.81, indicating that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Integral Ad Science and Nexxen International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
Integral Ad Science | 1.53% | 0.83% | 0.62% |
Nexxen International | -6.47% | 2.94% | 1.80% |
Summary
Integral Ad Science beats Nexxen International on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Integral Ad Science
Integral Ad Science Holding Corp. operates as a digital advertising verification company in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Australia, Japan, India, and the Nordics. The company provides IAS Signal, a cloud-based technology platform that offers return on ad spend needs; and deliver independent measurement and verification of digital advertising across devices, channels, and formats, including desktop, mobile, connected TV, social, display, and video. Its digital media quality solutions offer ad fraud detection and prevention, viewability, brand safety and suitability, contextual targeting, inventory yield management, and reporting. In addition, the company offers Quality Impressions, a metric designed to verify that digital ads are served to a real person rather than a bot, viewable on-screen, and presented in a brand-safe and suitable environment in the correct geography; Context Control solution that delivers contextual targeting and brand suitability capabilities; pre-bid programmatic and post-bid verification solutions for advertisers; and optimization and verification solutions for publishers. It serves advertisers and agencies, publishers, and supply side platforms. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
About Nexxen International
Nexxen International Ltd. provides end-to-end software platform that enables advertisers to reach publishers Israel. The company's demand side platform (DSP) offers full-service and self-managed marketplace access to advertisers and agencies to execute their digital marketing campaigns in real time across various ad formats. Its sell supply side platform (SSP) provides access to data and a comprehensive product suite to drive inventory management and revenue optimization. The company also offers data management platform solution, which integrates DSP and SSP solutions enabling advertisers and publishers to use data from various sources in order to optimize results of their advertising campaigns. It serves ad buyers, advertisers, brands, agencies, and digital publishers in the United States, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company was formerly known as Tremor International Ltd and changed its name to Nexxen International Ltd. in January 2024. Nexxen International Ltd. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.
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