Financial Survey: GDS (NASDAQ:GDS) & Digiliti Money (OTCMKTS:DGLT)

Digiliti Money (OTCMKTS:DGLT) and GDS (NASDAQ:GDS) are both technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares Digiliti Money and GDS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Digiliti Money	N/A	N/A	N/A
GDS	30.70%	18.63%	6.27%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Digiliti Money and GDS”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Digiliti Money	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
GDS	$12.08 billion	0.57	$132.10 million	$2.15	16.00

GDS has higher revenue and earnings than Digiliti Money.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Digiliti Money and GDS, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Digiliti Money	0	0	0	0	0.00
GDS	0	2	5	1	2.88

GDS has a consensus target price of $48.33, indicating a potential upside of 40.45%. Given GDS’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe GDS is more favorable than Digiliti Money.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

33.7% of GDS shares are held by institutional investors. 50.9% of Digiliti Money shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of GDS shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

GDS beats Digiliti Money on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Digiliti Money

Digiliti Money Group, Inc. provides technology solutions and services to the financial services industry. It offers remote deposit capture technology and related services to banks, credit unions, and other types of financial institutions or financial service organizations. The company was formerly known as Cachet Financial Solutions, Inc. and changed its name to Digiliti Money Group, Inc. in April 2017. Digiliti Money Group, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Cody, Wyoming.

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.