Contrasting Robot Consulting (NASDAQ:LAWR) & Commerce.com (NASDAQ:CMRC)

Robot Consulting (NASDAQ:LAWR) and Commerce.com (NASDAQ:CMRC) are both small-cap services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Robot Consulting and Commerce.com, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Robot Consulting	0	0	0	0	0.00
Commerce.com	1	2	3	0	2.33

Commerce.com has a consensus price target of $8.42, suggesting a potential upside of 78.70%. Given Commerce.com’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Commerce.com is more favorable than Robot Consulting.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Robot Consulting and Commerce.com”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Robot Consulting	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Commerce.com	$332.93 million	1.14	-$27.03 million	($0.22)	-21.41

Robot Consulting has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Commerce.com.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

79.2% of Commerce.com shares are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of Commerce.com 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.

Profitability

This table compares Robot Consulting and Commerce.com’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Robot Consulting	N/A	N/A	N/A
Commerce.com	-5.37%	-25.13%	-2.77%

Summary

Commerce.com beats Robot Consulting on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Robot Consulting

Robot Consulting Co. Ltd. is a platform service provider focusing on human resource solutions with an intention to expand into legal technology and the metaverse. The Company’s major product, Labor Robot, is a cloud-based human resource management system which helps users track employee attendance, manage sales orders and journalize accounting items. Robot Consulting Co. Ltd. is based in Tokyo, Japan.

About Commerce.com

BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service platform for small businesses, mid-markets, and large enterprises in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company’s platform provides various services for launching and scaling e-commerce operation, including store design, catalog management, hosting, checkout, order management, reporting, and pre-integrations. As of December 31, 2021, it served approximately 60,000 online stores across industries. BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.