Financial Contrast: NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) & NCC Group (OTCMKTS:NCCGF)

NCC Group (OTCMKTS:NCCGF) and NICE (NASDAQ:NICE) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.

Risk & Volatility

NCC Group has a beta of -0.12, meaning that its stock price is 112% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NICE has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares NCC Group and NICE’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NCC Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
NICE	16.18%	16.17%	11.11%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for NCC Group and NICE, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NCC Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
NICE	0	4	12	0	2.75

NICE has a consensus target price of $231.64, suggesting a potential upside of 53.36%. Given NICE’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe NICE is more favorable than NCC Group.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares NCC Group and NICE”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NCC Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
NICE	$2.74 billion	3.47	$338.30 million	$6.76	22.34

NICE has higher revenue and earnings than NCC Group.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

63.3% of NICE shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of NICE shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

NICE beats NCC Group on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NCC Group

NCC Group plc engages in the cyber and software resilience business in the United Kingdom, the Asian-Pacific, North America, and Europe. The company operates in two segments, Cyber Security and Software Resilience. It offers assessment and advisory services, which include risk management, supply chain risk, cloud and infrastructure, application and security software, mobile, managed vulnerability scanning, hardware and embedded systems, and cryptography, as well as calibrator and cyber security review solutions. The company also provides detection and response services, including managed detection and response, incident response, and threat intelligence; compliance services, such as data privacy, government security, and payments; and remediation and big bounty services. In addition, it provides software resilience services, such as cloud software escrow solutions, on-premises software escrow agreements, on-premises software escrow verification, virtual and physical escrow vaults, software security testing, and software risk assessment tools, as well as offers training services to developers and other security teams. The company serves customers in various industries that include finance and professional, transport and manufacturing, public, retail, and energy and utilities, as well as technology, media, telecommunications sectors. NCC Group plc was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Manchester, the United Kingdom.

About NICE

NICE Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud platforms for AI-driven digital business solutions worldwide. It offers CXone, a cloud native open platform; Enlighten, an AI engine for the customer engagement market; and smart self service enable organizations to address consumers' needs; and journey orchestration solutions that empower organizations to connect and route customers to deal with the customer's request, and connects them using real time AI-based routing. The company provides smart self service solutions that empower organizations to build intelligent automated conversations based on data; and prepared agent solutions and tools enable contact center agents to guide and alert them in real time; provides solutions that help organizations to record structured and unstructured customer interaction and transaction data; and NICE Evidencentral, an digital evidence management platform for public safety emergency communications, law enforcement, and criminal justice helps agencies. In addition, it offers X-Sight, is an open and flexible AI-cloud platform for financial crime and compliance; Xceed, a cloud platform for comprehensive AML and fraud prevention for small and mid-sized organizations; data intelligence solutions that enable organizations to turn raw data into comprehensive actionable intelligence to prevent and detect financial crimes; AI and analytics technologies to detect and prevent financial crimes in real-time; money laundering and fraud prevention solutions that help organizations adhere to capital markets compliance and anti-money laundering compliance regulations; intelligent investigations solutions; and self-service solutions that provide organizations with customization and self-development capabilities. The company was formerly known as NICE-Systems Ltd. and changed its name to NICE Ltd. in June 2016. NICE Ltd. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel.