Reviewing Helport AI (NASDAQ:HPAI) and AppTech Payments (NASDAQ:APCX)

AppTech Payments (NASDAQ:APCX) and Helport AI (NASDAQ:HPAI) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation and earnings.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares AppTech Payments and Helport AI”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AppTech Payments	$276,000.00	54.02	-$18.51 million	($0.19)	-1.87
Helport AI	$34.86 million	0.46	$1.86 million	N/A	N/A

Helport AI has higher revenue and earnings than AppTech Payments.

Volatility and Risk

AppTech Payments has a beta of -0.44, indicating that its stock price is 144% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Helport AI has a beta of -0.04, indicating that its stock price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for AppTech Payments and Helport AI, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AppTech Payments	0	0	0	0	0.00
Helport AI	1	0	0	0	1.00

Insider and Institutional Ownership

5.2% of AppTech Payments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.4% of Helport AI shares are held by institutional investors. 44.5% of AppTech Payments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.3% of Helport AI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares AppTech Payments and Helport AI’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%
Helport AI	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Helport AI beats AppTech Payments on 8 of the 10 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 Helport AI

Helport AI Ltd. engages in the development of intelligent products, solutions, and a digital platform for customer contact centers. The firm offers AI Assist, a software that provides tailored AI-powered guidance and oversight for contact center interactions and customer experience, with functions including agent assistant, quality assurance (QA) assistant, supervisor assistant, and knowledge base assistant. It also operates Helphub Crowdsourcing Platform, an AI integrated contact center business process outsourcing (BPO) platform that serves both companies providing and seeking BPO services. The company was founded in September 2020 and is headquartered in Singapore.