Reviewing Treasure Global (NASDAQ:TGL) and Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT)

Treasure Global (NASDAQ:TGL) and Conduent (NASDAQ:CNDT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Treasure Global and Conduent, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Treasure Global	0	0	0	0	0.00
Conduent	0	0	1	0	3.00

Conduent has a consensus target price of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 136.84%. Given Conduent’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Conduent is more favorable than Treasure Global.

Volatility and Risk

Treasure Global has a beta of 2.86, suggesting that its share price is 186% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conduent has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

77.3% of Conduent shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Treasure Global shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Conduent shares are owned 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.

Profitability

This table compares Treasure Global and Conduent’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Treasure Global	-61.36%	-131.73%	-105.59%
Conduent	12.65%	-7.94%	-1.99%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Treasure Global and Conduent”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Treasure Global	$8.81 million	0.27	-$6.59 million	N/A	N/A
Conduent	$3.51 billion	0.17	-$296.00 million	$2.27	1.67

Treasure Global has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Conduent.

Summary

Conduent beats Treasure Global on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Treasure Global

Treasure Global Inc. offers e-commerce activities through its platform. Its platform provides consumers and merchants instant rebates and affiliate cashback programs, while providing a seamless e-payment solution with rebates in both e-commerce and physical retailers/merchant settings. The company offers ZCITY App, a payment gateway platform. Treasure Global Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

About Conduent

Conduent Incorporated provides digital business solutions and services for the commercial, government, and transportation spectrum in the United States, Europe, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Commercial, Government Services, and Transportation. The Commercial segment offers business process services and customized solutions to clients in various industries; and customer experience management, business operations, healthcare claims and administration, and human capital solutions. The Government segment provides government-centric business process services to the United States federal, state, local, and foreign governments for public assistance, program administration, transaction processing, and payment services; and digital payments, child support payments, government healthcare, and eligibility and enrollment solutions. The Transportation segment offers systems, support, and revenue-generating solutions to government transportation agency clients; and public safety, mobility, and digital payment solutions. This segment also provides electronic tolling, urban congestion management, and mileage-based user solutions; transit solutions; citation and permit administration, parking enforcement, and curbside demand management solutions; and computer-aided dispatch/automatic vehicle location solutions. Conduent Incorporated was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey.