Comparing DoubleVerify (NYSE:DV) and Pintec Technology (NASDAQ:PT)

DoubleVerify (NYSE:DV) and Pintec Technology (NASDAQ:PT) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

Risk and Volatility

DoubleVerify has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pintec Technology has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares DoubleVerify and Pintec Technology”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
DoubleVerify	$638.46 million	5.32	$71.47 million	$0.37	54.27
Pintec Technology	$7.44 million	1.93	-$11.12 million	N/A	N/A

DoubleVerify has higher revenue and earnings than Pintec Technology.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for DoubleVerify and Pintec Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DoubleVerify	2	5	13	0	2.55
Pintec Technology	0	1	0	0	2.00

DoubleVerify currently has a consensus target price of $24.06, indicating a potential upside of 19.80%. Given DoubleVerify’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe DoubleVerify is more favorable than Pintec Technology.

Profitability

This table compares DoubleVerify and Pintec Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DoubleVerify	10.33%	5.99%	5.18%
Pintec Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider and Institutional Ownership

97.3% of DoubleVerify shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pintec Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of DoubleVerify shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Pintec Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

DoubleVerify beats Pintec Technology on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About DoubleVerify

DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc. provides a software platform for digital media measurement, and data analytics in the United States and internationally. The company provides solutions to advertisers that enable advertisers to increase the effectiveness and quality and return on their digital advertising investments. It offers DV Authentic Ad, a metric of digital media quality, which evaluates the existence of fraud-free, brand-suitable, viewability, and geography for each digital ad; DV Authentic Attention that provides actionable, and comprehensive data to drive campaign performance; and Custom Contextual solution, which allows advertisers to match their ads to relevant content to maximize user engagement and drive campaign performance. In addition, the company provides DV Publisher suite, a solution for digital publishers to manage revenue and increase inventory yield by improving video delivery, identifying lost or unfilled sales, and aggregate data across all inventory sources; and DV Pinnacle, a service and analytics platform user interface that allows its customers to adjust and deploy controls for their media plan and track campaign performance metrics across channels, formats, and devices. Further, it offers software solutions are integrated in the digital advertising ecosystem, including programmatic platforms, social media channels, and digital publishers. It serves brands, publishers, and other supply-side customers covering various industry verticals, including consumer packaged goods, financial services, telecommunications, technology, automotive, and healthcare. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

About Pintec Technology

Pintec Technology Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of technology-enabled financial and digital services to the ecosystem of MSMEs and SMEs in the People’s Republic of China. The company connects business partners and financial partners on its open platform and enables them to provide financial services to end users. It provides point-of-sale financing solutions to its business partners on their platforms or on its own platform under the Dumiao brand; and business installment loan solutions to its business partners on their platforms or on its own platform. The company also offers wealth management solutions, including a fund distribution solution that enables partners to offer and distribute mutual fund products to their customers, either under its Hongdian brand or as a white label solution; and a robo-advisory solution under the Polaris brand which enables its financial and business partners to provide robo-advisory services to their customers. In addition, it provides international installment loan solutions; Myfin, an insurance solution, that enables its partners to offer and distribute insurance products to its users; value added tools to business and financial partners for deploying its solutions, monitor and evaluate performance, and scale their business; digital marketing tools to target users, implement intelligent digital marketing activities, and increase marketing efficiencies and effectiveness; and real time monitoring tools that offer comprehensive and visualized performance monitoring interface. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.