Financial Contrast: Eqonex (NASDAQ:EQOS) vs. OLO (NYSE:OLO)

Eqonex (NASDAQ:EQOS) and OLO (NYSE:OLO) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

93.4% of OLO shares are held by institutional investors. 39.3% of OLO shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Eqonex and OLO, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Eqonex	0	0	0	0	N/A
OLO	0	1	3	0	2.75

OLO has a consensus target price of $8.67, indicating a potential upside of 69.60%. Given OLO’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe OLO is more favorable than Eqonex.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Eqonex and OLO’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Eqonex	$5.29 million	0.82	-$75.00 million	N/A	N/A
OLO	$257.81 million	3.18	-$58.29 million	($0.29)	-17.62

OLO has higher revenue and earnings than Eqonex.

Profitability

This table compares Eqonex and OLO’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Eqonex	N/A	N/A	N/A
OLO	-9.36%	-0.47%	-0.42%

Volatility & Risk

Eqonex has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OLO has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

OLO beats Eqonex on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Eqonex

Eqonex Limited operates as a digital assets financial services company. It operates through three divisions: Custody, Asset Management, and Brokerage. The company provides Digivault, a custody solution; Bletchley Park, a digital asset investment solution for institutional and professional investors; and EQONEX Investment products that issues securitized products. It also operates an over-the-counter brokerage, and borrowing and lending services, as well as structured products. The company was formerly known as Diginex Limited and changed its name to Eqonex Limited in October 2021. Eqonex Limited is headquartered in Singapore.

About OLO

Olo Inc. operates an open SaaS platform for restaurants in the United States. The company's platform enables on-demand digital commerce operations, which cover digital ordering, delivery, front-of-house management, and payments. Its solutions include Order, a suite of solutions powering restaurant brands' on-demand commerce operations, enabling digital ordering, delivery, and channel management through ordering, dispatch, rails, switchboard, network, virtual brands, kiosk, catering, and sync modules; Engage, a suite of restaurant-centric marketing solutions optimizing guest lifetime value by strengthening and enhancing the restaurants' direct guest relationships, through the guest data platform, marketing, sentiment, and host modules; and Pay, a frictionless payment platform that enables restaurants to grow and protect their digital business through customer payment experience that offers advanced fraud prevention to improve authorization rates for valid transactions, and increase basket conversion through its Olo Pay module. The company was formerly known as Mobo Systems, Inc. and changed its name to Olo Inc. in January 2020. Olo Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.