Reviewing Konami (OTCMKTS:KNMCY) and AppTech Payments (NASDAQ:APCX)

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Konami and AppTech Payments”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Konami	$2.42 billion	3.56	$183.01 million	$1.33	47.83
AppTech Payments	$276,000.00	40.59	-$18.51 million	($0.19)	-1.69

Konami has higher revenue and earnings than AppTech Payments. AppTech Payments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Konami, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.0% of Konami shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.2% of AppTech Payments shares are held by institutional investors. 37.9% of AppTech Payments shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Konami has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AppTech Payments has a beta of -0.26, indicating that its stock price is 126% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Konami and AppTech Payments’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Konami	7.25%	6.91%	4.60%
AppTech Payments	-3,119.45%	-398.98%	-153.45%

Summary

Konami beats AppTech Payments on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Konami

Konami Holdings Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, primarily engages in the digital entertainment business. It operates through four segments: Digital Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Gaming & Systems, and Pachislot & Pachinko Machines. The Digital Entertainment segment manufactures and sells digital content and related products, including mobile games, arcade games, card games, and computer and video games. The Health & Fitness segment operates health and fitness clubs, as well as designs, manufactures, and sells fitness machines and health products. The Gaming & Systems segment designs, manufactures, sells, and services gaming machines and casino management systems. The Pachislot & Pachinko Machines segment researches, designs, produces, and sells pachinko slot and pachinko machines. It operates in Japan and other Asia/Oceania countries, the United States, and Europe. The company was formerly known as Konami Corporation and changed its name to Konami Holdings Corporation in October 2015. Konami Holdings Corporation was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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.