Contrasting Alarum Technologies (NASDAQ:ALAR) and NCR Voyix (NYSE:VYX)

NCR Voyix (NYSE:VYX) and Alarum Technologies (NASDAQ:ALAR) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.

Volatility & Risk

NCR Voyix has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alarum Technologies has a beta of 1.73, indicating that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares NCR Voyix and Alarum Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NCR Voyix	2.53%	11.23%	2.61%
Alarum Technologies	2.53%	17.11%	12.65%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

97.0% of NCR Voyix shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.2% of Alarum Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of NCR Voyix shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Alarum Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares NCR Voyix and Alarum Technologies”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NCR Voyix	$2.69 billion	0.37	$62.00 million	$0.40	17.89
Alarum Technologies	$40.76 million	0.28	$960,000.00	$0.16	9.75

NCR Voyix has higher revenue and earnings than Alarum Technologies. Alarum Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NCR Voyix, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for NCR Voyix and Alarum Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NCR Voyix	0	3	3	0	2.50
Alarum Technologies	1	1	1	0	2.00

NCR Voyix presently has a consensus price target of $12.40, indicating a potential upside of 73.26%. Alarum Technologies has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 797.44%. Given Alarum Technologies’ higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alarum Technologies is more favorable than NCR Voyix.

Summary

NCR Voyix beats Alarum Technologies on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NCR Voyix

NCR Voyix Corporation provides various software and services in the United States, the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through three segments: Retail; Restaurants; and Digital Banking. It offers software, services, and hardware; and digital banking solutions for financial institution’s consumer and business customers. The company provides solutions for banking channel services, transaction processing, imaging, and branch services. In addition, it offers solutions for retail industry comprising comprehensive API-point of sale (POS) retail software platforms and applications, hardware terminals and peripherals, payment processing solutions, and consumer engagement solutions, as well as self-service kiosks, which consists of self-checkout (SCO). Further, the company provides technology solutions to customers in the restaurant industry comprising table-service, quick-service, and fast casual restaurants. Additionally, it offers cloud-based and platform-enabled software applications for point-of-sale, back office, payment processing, kitchen production, restaurant management, eCommerce, mobile ordering, and consumer marketing and loyalty; and restaurant -oriented hardware products, such as POS terminals, kitchen display systems, handheld devices, printers, and peripherals. It also offers solutions for customer account opening and onboarding across digital, branch, and call center channels. The company serves grocery stores, drug stores, and box retailers; and quick service, table service and fast casual restaurants of all sizes, small-and-medium sized businesses to large multi-national, and enterprise clients. The company was formerly known as NCR Corporation and changed its name to NCR Voyix Corporation in October 2023. NCR Voyix Corporation was incorporated in 1884 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

About Alarum Technologies

Alarum Technologies Ltd. provides internet access and web data collection solutions in North, South, and Central America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through two segments, Enterprise Internet Access Solutions and Consumer Internet Access Solutions. The company offers security blanket against ransomware, viruses, phishing, and other online threats, as well as secured and encrypted connection, masking the customers online activity and keeping them safe from hackers. It also provides privacy solutions and services, a software solution that uses an encryption protocol which is defined upon the process being used to generate a secured encrypted path and keep the users' data private and safe; and web data collection solution allows organizations to collect vast amounts of web and internet data by simultaneously connecting to the Internet from different IP addresses. In addition, the company offers static residential proxy network, rotating residential proxy network, data center proxy network, premium dedicated static residential proxies, mobile proxies, SERP data collection service, and social data collection service, as well as advertising services to enterprise customers. The company offers its products through resellers and internet service providers. It serves advertising and media companies, financial organizations, cyber security companies, industrial and commercial companies, online companies, education institutions, and AI recruitment market and other sectors. The company was formerly known as Safe-T Group Ltd. and changed its name to Alarum Technologies Ltd. in January 2023. Alarum Technologies Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.