Agora (NASDAQ:API – Get Free Report) and Zenvia (NASDAQ:ZENV – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
40.4% of Agora shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.3% of Zenvia shares are held by institutional investors. 78.4% of Zenvia shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Volatility & Risk
Agora has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zenvia has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Agora | $141.06 million | 2.41 | $9.53 million | $0.09 | 43.22 |
| Zenvia | $1.10 billion | 0.02 | -$28.67 million | ($0.40) | -1.17 |
Agora has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Zenvia. Zenvia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Agora, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Agora and Zenvia’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Agora | 6.75% | 1.68% | 1.35% |
| Zenvia | -10.62% | -14.36% | -6.52% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Agora and Zenvia, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Agora | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
| Zenvia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Summary
Agora beats Zenvia on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Zenvia
Zenvia Inc. provides customer experience communications platform which empowers businesses to create unique journeys for their end-customers along their life cycle across range of B2C verticals. Zenvia Inc. is based in S?O PAULO.
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