Critical Contrast: UbiSoft Entertainment (OTC:UBSFY) & ON24 (NYSE:ONTF)

ON24 (NYSE:ONTF) and UbiSoft Entertainment (OTC:UBSFY) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.

Risk and Volatility

ON24 has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UbiSoft Entertainment has a beta of -0.03, suggesting that its share price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for ON24 and UbiSoft Entertainment, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ON24	0	3	0	0	2.00
UbiSoft Entertainment	0	0	0	0	0.00

ON24 presently has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 33.72%. Given ON24’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe ON24 is more favorable than UbiSoft Entertainment.

Profitability

This table compares ON24 and UbiSoft Entertainment’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ON24	-28.63%	-23.10%	-15.05%
UbiSoft Entertainment	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares ON24 and UbiSoft Entertainment”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ON24	$148.08 million	1.28	-$51.79 million	($1.01)	-4.44
UbiSoft Entertainment	$2.50 billion	0.54	$171.28 million	N/A	N/A

UbiSoft Entertainment has higher revenue and earnings than ON24.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

83.9% of ON24 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of UbiSoft Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 32.3% of ON24 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

ON24 beats UbiSoft Entertainment on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ON24

ON24, Inc. provides a cloud-based intelligent engagement platform that enables businesses to convert customer engagement into revenue through interactive webinar, virtual event, and multimedia content experiences worldwide. The company provides ON24 Elite, for live and interactive webinar experience; ON24 Breakouts, for live breakout room experience that facilitates networking, collaboration, and interactivity between users; ON24 Forums, for live and interactive experience, which facilitates video-to-video interaction between presenters and audiences; ON24 Go Live, for live and interactive video event experience that enables presenters and attendees to engage face-to-face in real-time; and ON24 Virtual Confrence, for live and large scale managed virtual event experience. It also offers ON24 Engagement Hub, for always-on multimedia content experience; ON24 Target, for personalized and curated landing page experience; ON24 Intelligence, for analytics backbone that captures first-person data to power the insights, benchmarking, reporting, and artificial intelligence and machine learning engine; ON24 AI-powered ACE, for enabling hyper-personalization at scale across ON24 experiences; ON24 Connect, for ecosystem of third-party application integrations; and ON24 Services and Platform Support, which provides a portfolio of professional services that provide consulting and support for product and platform adoption. In addition, the company offers consulting services, such as experience management, monitoring and production, implementation, and other support services. It sells its products through direct sales. The company serves technology, financial services, healthcare, industrial and manufacturing, professional services, and business-to-business information service companies. The company was formerly known as NewsDirect, Inc. and changed its name to ON24, Inc. in December 1998. ON24, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About UbiSoft Entertainment

Ubisoft Entertainment operates in parts of Europe, Canada and the United States and its primary activities are the production, publishing and distribution of interactive entertainment products. Products include video games, educational and cultural software, cartoons, literary, multimedia, audio-visual products, cinematographic and television works. Some of its brands are Driver, Anno, Endwar and Tom Clancy.