Digimarc (NASDAQ:DMRC – Get Free Report) and UiPath (NYSE:PATH – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
66.8% of Digimarc shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of UiPath shares are held by institutional investors. 26.0% of Digimarc shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of UiPath shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Digimarc and UiPath”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Digimarc | $33.91 million | 3.30 | -$32.31 million | ($1.43) | -3.50 |
| UiPath | $1.61 billion | 4.42 | $282.33 million | $0.67 | 20.53 |
UiPath has higher revenue and earnings than Digimarc. Digimarc is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UiPath, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk & Volatility
Digimarc has a beta of 2.29, meaning that its share price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UiPath has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Digimarc and UiPath, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Digimarc | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| UiPath | 1 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 2.10 |
Digimarc presently has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 200.00%. UiPath has a consensus target price of $16.75, suggesting a potential upside of 21.77%. Given Digimarc’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Digimarc is more favorable than UiPath.
Profitability
This table compares Digimarc and UiPath’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Digimarc | -99.80% | -34.31% | -24.52% |
| UiPath | 21.03% | 9.70% | 6.42% |
Summary
UiPath beats Digimarc on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Digimarc
Digimarc Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides automatic identification solutions to commercial and government customers in the United States and internationally. The company offers Digimarc Validate protects, a cloud-based record of product authentication information; Digimarc Engage, an interactive communications channel connecting brands and consumers; and Digimarc Recycle. Its solutions are used in various application solutions, such as sorting of consumer-packaged goods in recycling streams. The company offers its solutions through its sales personnel and business partners. Digimarc Corporation was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Beaverton, Oregon.
About UiPath
UiPath Inc. provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers a suite of interrelated software to build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automation within the organization. Its platform's embedded AI, ML, and NLP capabilities improve decisioning and information processing; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; multi-tenant platform enterprise deployment with security and governance and Automation Cloud, which enables customers to begin automating without the need to provision infrastructure, install applications, or perform additional configurations; intuitive interface and low-code, drag-and-drop functionality; signed to enable people and automations to work together; and tracks, measures, and forecasts the performance of automations, enables customers to gain powerful insights and generate key performance indicators with actionable metric. It serves banking and financial services, healthcare, insurance, public sectors, manufacturing, retail, and telecom industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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