Gorilla Technology Group (NASDAQ:GRRR) vs. GDS (NASDAQ:GDS) Head to Head Analysis

Gorilla Technology Group (NASDAQ:GRRR) and GDS (NASDAQ:GDS) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Gorilla Technology Group and GDS”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gorilla Technology Group	$111.33 million	4.09	-$11.28 million	$0.09	193.33
GDS	$1.63 billion	3.99	$132.10 million	$1.57	20.74

GDS has higher revenue and earnings than Gorilla Technology Group. GDS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gorilla Technology Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Gorilla Technology Group and GDS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gorilla Technology Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
GDS	23.83%	15.62%	5.16%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

1.3% of Gorilla Technology Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.7% of GDS shares are held by institutional investors. 30.5% of Gorilla Technology Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of GDS shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

Gorilla Technology Group has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GDS has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Gorilla Technology Group and GDS, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gorilla Technology Group	1	1	1	0	2.00
GDS	0	3	6	1	2.80

Gorilla Technology Group currently has a consensus price target of $40.00, indicating a potential upside of 129.89%. GDS has a consensus price target of $48.04, indicating a potential upside of 47.54%. Given Gorilla Technology Group’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Gorilla Technology Group is more favorable than GDS.

Summary

GDS beats Gorilla Technology Group on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Gorilla Technology Group

Gorilla Technology Group Inc. provides video intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) security, and edge content management hardware, software, and services in the Asia Pacific region. The company operates through three segments: Video IoT, Security Convergence, and Other segments. It offers intelligent video analytics AI models for various verticals, such as behavioral analytics, people/face recognition, vehicle analysis, object recognition, and business intelligence that can scan video for patterns and distinguish specific items using AI algorithms and metadata. The company also provides information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) security convergence AI algorithms for system administrators and security engineers to detect suspicious behaviors in real time; network anomaly detection AI models; and endpoint malware and suspicious behavior detection AI models. In addition, it offers intelligent video analytics (IVA) appliances to analyze and turn unstructured video and picture data into structured data; IVAR appliance that provides insight into business and operations in a statistic dashboard; smart attendance to track employee health and safety, work hours, clock-ins/outs, and absenteeism, as well as to protect company assets and intellectual properties; event and video management system appliances to store event/object attributes in temporal-spatial big data database from Gorilla; and operation technology security appliance to monitor and control physical devices, processes, and infrastructure, as well as to protect industrial systems and networks from various threats. Further, the company provides smart retail SaaS for shopper demographics, visualized shopper behavior, and advanced data analytics, smart city and transportation SaaS for traffic management, public safety, and planning data; and endpoint security SaaS that protects endpoints against security threats. Gorilla Technology Group Inc. is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

About GDS

GDS Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, develops and operates data centers in the People's Republic of China. The company provides colocation services comprising critical facilities space, customer-available power, racks, and cooling; managed hosting services, including business continuity and disaster recovery, network management, data storage, system security, operating system, database, and server middleware services; managed cloud services; and consulting services. It serves cloud service providers, large Internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications and IT service providers, and large domestic private sector and multinational corporations. GDS Holdings Limited was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.