Financial Comparison: Five9 (NASDAQ:FIVN) and 12 Retech (OTCMKTS:RETC)

12 Retech (OTCMKTS:RETC) and Five9 (NASDAQ:FIVN) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for 12 Retech and Five9, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
12 Retech	0	0	0	0	0.00
Five9	1	7	10	0	2.50

Five9 has a consensus target price of $25.93, indicating a potential upside of 24.48%. Given Five9’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Five9 is more favorable than 12 Retech.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares 12 Retech and Five9″s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
12 Retech	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Five9	$1.15 billion	1.39	$39.42 million	$0.66	31.56

Five9 has higher revenue and earnings than 12 Retech.

Profitability

This table compares 12 Retech and Five9’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
12 Retech	N/A	N/A	N/A
Five9	4.87%	12.66%	5.52%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

96.6% of Five9 shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Five9 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Five9 beats 12 Retech on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About 12 Retech

12 ReTech Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, develops, installs, and sells software for retailers in the United States. Its platform includes 12Mirror, an in-store application, which recognizes clothes worn by a person in reflection and takes pictures that are downloadable by the user and sharable through social media; 12Kiosk, an in-store application, which is used for browsing and obtaining information about consumers and products, as well as placing orders and checking out; 12Mobile, a mobile app that is used for browse products, place orders, and share products with other members and make new friends; and 12Desktop, an e-commerce website. The company also operates retail stores in airport terminals and casinos under the Bluwire brand; sells fashionable apparel under the Rune NYC, Social Sunday, and Red Wire Design brands; and produces women's clothing products. 12 ReTech Corporation was founded in 2014 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

About Five9

Five9, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides intelligent cloud software for contact centers in the United States, India, and internationally. It offers a virtual contact center cloud platform that delivers a suite of applications, which enables the breadth of contact center-related customer service, sales, and marketing functions. The company’s platform comprises of including interactive virtual agent, agent assist, workflow automation, workforce engagement management, AI insights, and AI summaries that allows to manage and optimize customer interactions across voice, chat, email, web, social media, and mobile channels directly or through its application programming interfaces. It also matches each customer interaction with an agent resource and delivers customer data to the agent in real-time through integrations with adjacent enterprise applications, such as CRM software, to optimize the customer experience and enhance agent productivity. The company serves customers in various industries, such as banking and financial services, business process outsourcers, retail, healthcare, technology, and education. Five9, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in San Ramon, California.