Fastly (NASDAQ:FSLY – Get Free Report) and Society Pass (NASDAQ:SOPA – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation and profitability.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
79.7% of Fastly shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.1% of Society Pass shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Fastly shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Society Pass shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Risk and Volatility
Fastly has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Society Pass has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Fastly | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2.46 |
| Society Pass | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.50 |
Fastly currently has a consensus target price of $25.33, suggesting a potential upside of 6.17%. Society Pass has a consensus target price of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 29,505.26%. Given Society Pass’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Society Pass is more favorable than Fastly.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Fastly and Society Pass”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Fastly | $624.02 million | 6.09 | -$121.68 million | ($0.53) | -45.02 |
| Society Pass | $7.23 million | 0.08 | -$10.23 million | ($2.43) | -0.03 |
Society Pass has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Fastly. Fastly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Society Pass, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Fastly and Society Pass’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Fastly | -11.80% | -6.31% | -4.04% |
| Society Pass | -145.99% | -343.41% | -39.70% |
Summary
Fastly beats Society Pass on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Fastly
Fastly, Inc. operates an edge cloud platform for processing, serving, and securing its customer's applications in the United States, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and internationally. The edge cloud is a category of Infrastructure as a Service that enables developers to build, secure, and deliver digital experiences at the edge of the internet. The company offers network services to speed up and optimize the delivery of web and application traffic; device detection and geolocation; content delivery network, such as dynamic site acceleration, origin shield, instant purge, surrogate keys, programmatic control, content compression, reliability features, fanout, domainr, privacy, and modern protocols and performance services; and video/ streaming solutions and services, including live streaming, video on demand, and media shield. It also provides security solutions, such as DDoS protection, next-gen WAF, bot management, API and ATO protection, advanced rate limiting, and compliance services; load balancing; image optimization; transport layer security (TLS), platform TLS, and certainly; and origin connect. It serves customers operating in digital publishing, media and entertainment, technology, online education, travel and hospitality, and financial services industries. The company was formerly known as SkyCache, Inc. and changed its name to Fastly, Inc. in May 2012. Fastly, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
About Society Pass
Society Pass Incorporated acquires and operates fintech and e-commerce platforms and mobile applications for consumers and merchants in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, the United States, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Thailand. It operates through Online Grocery and Food and Groceries Deliveries, Digital marketing, Online ticketing and reservation, Telecommunications Reseller, e-Commerce, and Merchant Point of Sale segments. The company operates Leflair, an online lifestyle platform that offers services and products, such as fashion and accessories, beauty and personal care, and home and lifestyle; an online food delivery service under the Handycart brand name; and an online grocery delivery service under the Pushkart brand name. It also sells hardware and software to merchant; local mobile phone and global internet data plans; and domestic and overseas air ticket, and global hotel reservations, as well as offers digital marketing services. The company was formerly known as Food Society, Inc. and changed its name to Society Pass Incorporated in October 2018. Society Pass Incorporated was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
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