Reviewing Xperi (NYSE:XPER) & LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP)

Xperi (NYSE:XPER) and LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) are both technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Xperi and LiveRamp’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Xperi	-7.12%	4.04%	2.72%
LiveRamp	18.71%	9.77%	7.41%

Volatility & Risk

Xperi has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LiveRamp has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Xperi and LiveRamp, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Xperi	1	1	2	0	2.25
LiveRamp	0	6	2	0	2.25

Xperi currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 112.36%. LiveRamp has a consensus target price of $40.21, suggesting a potential upside of 5.18%. Given Xperi’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Xperi is more favorable than LiveRamp.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Xperi and LiveRamp”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Xperi	$456.84 million	0.55	-$56.34 million	($0.70)	-7.40
LiveRamp	$812.94 million	2.86	$145.95 million	$2.44	15.67

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

94.3% of Xperi shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.8% of LiveRamp shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Xperi shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of LiveRamp shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

LiveRamp beats Xperi on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Xperi

Xperi Holding Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a consumer and entertainment product/solutions licensing company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Product, and Intellectual Property Licensing. The company invents, develops, and delivers various technologies. It licenses audio, digital radio, imaging, edge-based machine learning, and multi-channel video user experience solutions to consumer electronics customers, automotive manufacturers, or supply chain partners. The company also provides licensing to multichannel video programming distributors, OTT video service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers, social media, and other new media companies in media industry; and memory, sensors, RF component, and foundry companies in semiconductor industry. It provides its technologies under the DTS, HD Radio, IMAX Enhanced, Invensas, TiVo, and Perceive brands. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California.

About LiveRamp

LiveRamp Holdings, Inc., a technology company, operates a data collaboration platform in the United States, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company operates LiveRamp Data Collaboration platform enables an organization to unify customer and prospect data to build a single view of the customer in a way that protects consumer privacy. Its platform supports various people-based marketing solutions, including data collaboration, activation, measurement and analytics, identity, and data marketplace. The company sells its solutions to enterprise marketers, agencies, marketing technology providers, publishers, and data providers in various industry verticals, such as financial, insurance and investment services, retail, automotive, telecommunications, high tech, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, travel, entertainment, and non-profit. The company was formerly known as Acxiom Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. in October 2018. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.