Insider and Institutional Ownership
5.2% of AppTech Payments shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.9% of AppTech Payments shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Ceridian HCM shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Risk & Volatility
AppTech Payments has a beta of -0.5, meaning that its share price is 150% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ceridian HCM has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares AppTech Payments and Ceridian HCM”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| AppTech Payments | $276,000.00 | 21.09 | -$18.51 million | ($0.48) | -0.36 |
| Ceridian HCM | $1.45 billion | 7.42 | -$73.40 million | $0.03 | 2,298.67 |
AppTech Payments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ceridian HCM. AppTech Payments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ceridian HCM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares AppTech Payments and Ceridian HCM’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| AppTech Payments | -3,119.45% | -398.98% | -153.45% |
| Ceridian HCM | 0.28% | 2.03% | 0.51% |
Summary
Ceridian HCM beats AppTech Payments on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About AppTech Payments
AppTech Payments Corp., a financial technology company, provides electronic payment processing technologies and merchant services in the United States. Its merchant transaction services offer processing payments for credit and debit cards through point-of-sale equipment, e-commerce gateways, periodic automatic clearing house payments, and gift and loyalty programs. The company also offers integrated solutions for frictionless digital and mobile payment acceptance, as well as multi-use case, multi-channel, API-driven, and account-based issuer processing for card, digital tokens, and payment transfer transaction services; hosted ecommerce checkout, a flexible payment gateway; and text payment technology, alternative payment methods (APMs), and contactless payments. In addition, it provides FinZeo, a fintech platform. The company was formerly known as AppTech Corp. AppTech Payments Corp. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
About Ceridian HCM
Ceridian HCM Holding Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a human capital management (HCM) software company in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It offers Dayforce, a cloud HCM platform that provides human resources, payroll, benefits, workforce management, and talent management functionality; and Powerpay, a cloud HR and payroll solution for the small business market. The company also provides Bureau solutions for payroll and payroll-related services. It sells its solutions through direct sales force and third-party channels. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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