Data443 Risk Mitigation (OTCMKTS:ATDS) vs. LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) Financial Comparison

LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) and Data443 Risk Mitigation (OTCMKTS:ATDS) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares LiveRamp and Data443 Risk Mitigation”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
LiveRamp	$812.94 million	2.83	$145.95 million	$2.44	15.50
Data443 Risk Mitigation	$4.42 million	0.00	-$2.57 million	($0.99)	N/A

LiveRamp has higher revenue and earnings than Data443 Risk Mitigation. Data443 Risk Mitigation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LiveRamp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

93.8% of LiveRamp shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of LiveRamp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.4% of Data443 Risk Mitigation shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility & Risk

LiveRamp has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Data443 Risk Mitigation has a beta of 46.62, meaning that its stock price is 4,562% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares LiveRamp and Data443 Risk Mitigation’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LiveRamp	18.71%	9.77%	7.41%
Data443 Risk Mitigation	-67.98%	N/A	-51.26%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for LiveRamp and Data443 Risk Mitigation, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LiveRamp	0	6	2	0	2.25
Data443 Risk Mitigation	0	0	0	0	0.00

LiveRamp presently has a consensus price target of $40.21, suggesting a potential upside of 6.32%. Given LiveRamp’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe LiveRamp is more favorable than Data443 Risk Mitigation.

Summary

LiveRamp beats Data443 Risk Mitigation on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About LiveRamp

LiveRamp Holdings, Inc., a technology company, operates a data collaboration platform in the United States, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company operates LiveRamp Data Collaboration platform enables an organization to unify customer and prospect data to build a single view of the customer in a way that protects consumer privacy. Its platform supports various people-based marketing solutions, including data collaboration, activation, measurement and analytics, identity, and data marketplace. The company sells its solutions to enterprise marketers, agencies, marketing technology providers, publishers, and data providers in various industry verticals, such as financial, insurance and investment services, retail, automotive, telecommunications, high tech, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, travel, entertainment, and non-profit. The company was formerly known as Acxiom Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. in October 2018. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About Data443 Risk Mitigation

Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. provides data security and privacy management solutions in the United States. The company offers Cyren Threat Intelligence Service that provides security, response, software, and services; Cyren Inbox Security for Microsoft 365, which prevents user access to malicious links and attachments; Ransomware Recovery Manager to recover a workstation upon infection to the last known business-operable state; Data Identification Manager, a data classification and governance technology; Data Archive Manager for enterprise data retention management and archiving; and Sensitive Content Manager, a cloud-based platform for managing, protecting, and distributing digital content. It also provides Data Placement Manager, a data transport, transformation, and delivery product; Access Control Manager that enables access controls across various platforms at scale for internal client systems and commercial public cloud platforms; Blockchain Protection Manager, which protects blockchain transactions from inadvertent disclosure and data leaks; and Global Privacy Manager, a privacy compliance and consumer loss mitigation platform. In addition, the company offers IntellyWP to enhance the user experience for content management platform; Chat History Scanner, which scans chat messages for compliance, security, personally identifiable information, personal information, payment card industry information, and custom keywords; and GDPR Framework, CCPA Framework, and LGPD Framework WordPress Plugins that enables organizations’ compliance on privacy rules and regulations. It serves the government, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology, and telecommunications sectors. The company was formerly known as LandStar, Inc. and changed its name to Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. in October 2019. Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.