Comparing Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) and Glory Star New Media Group (NASDAQ:GSMG)

Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) and Glory Star New Media Group (NASDAQ:GSMG) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

89.8% of Workday shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.9% of Glory Star New Media Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.1% of Workday shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 41.7% of Glory Star New Media Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Workday and Glory Star New Media Group’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Workday	$7.26 billion	9.30	$1.38 billion	$5.15	49.67
Glory Star New Media Group	$154.58 million	0.18	$26.89 million	N/A	N/A

Workday has higher revenue and earnings than Glory Star New Media Group.

Volatility & Risk

Workday has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Glory Star New Media Group has a beta of -0.21, meaning that its stock price is 121% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Workday and Glory Star New Media Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Workday	19.02%	4.87%	2.28%
Glory Star New Media Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Workday and Glory Star New Media Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Workday	1	6	21	0	2.71
Glory Star New Media Group	0	0	0	0	N/A

Workday currently has a consensus price target of $293.61, indicating a potential upside of 14.79%. Given Workday’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Workday is more favorable than Glory Star New Media Group.

Summary

Workday beats Glory Star New Media Group on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Workday

Workday, Inc. provides enterprise cloud applications in the United States and internationally. Its applications help its customers to plan, execute, analyze, and extend to other applications and environments to manage their business and operations. The company offers a suite of financial management applications to maintain accounting information in the general ledger; manage financial processes, such as payables and receivables; identify real-time financial, operational, and management insights; enhance financial consolidation; reduce time-to-close; promote internal control and auditability; and achieve consistency across finance operations. It also provides spend management solutions that help organizations to streamline supplier selection and contracts, manage indirect spend, and build and execute sourcing events, such as requests for proposals; expense management solutions to submit and approve expenses; and a suite of human capital management applications that enables HR teams to hire, onboard, pay, develop, reskill, and provide employee experiences. In addition, the company offers planning applications; and applications for analytics and reporting comprising augmented analytics to surface insights to the line of business in simple-to-understand stories, machine learning to drive efficiency and automation, and benchmarks to compare performance against other companies. Further, it provides supply chain and inventory solutions to healthcare organizations; solutions to manage the end-to-end student and faculty lifecycle; and Workday Extend for customers and their developers to build custom applications. It serves professional and business services, financial services, healthcare, education, government, technology, media, retail, and hospitality industries. The company was formerly known as North Tahoe Power Tools, Inc. and changed its name to Workday, Inc. in July 2005. Workday, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

About Glory Star New Media Group

Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides advertisement and content production services in the People's Republic of China. The company also engages in mobile and online advertising, and media and entertainment businesses. In addition, it operates CHEERS app, an e-commerce platform that allows users to access online store, live streaming, series TV shows, and online games, as well as online short videos, variety shows, and dramas. It is also developing CheerCar App, an interactive entertainment app; CheerReal, a digital collection NFT app; and CheerChat App, an overseas social audio app. Glory Star New Media Group Holdings Limited was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.