QXO (NASDAQ:QXO) & LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) Critical Comparison

LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) and QXO (NASDAQ:QXO) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares LiveRamp and QXO”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
LiveRamp	$659.66 million	3.37	$11.88 million	$0.01	3,379.00
QXO	$54.52 million	100.67	-$1.07 million	($9.12)	-1.47

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for LiveRamp and QXO, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LiveRamp	0	2	4	0	2.67
QXO	0	0	0	0	0.00

LiveRamp presently has a consensus target price of $39.33, suggesting a potential upside of 16.41%. Given LiveRamp’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe LiveRamp is more favorable than QXO.

Volatility & Risk

LiveRamp has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, QXO has a beta of 2.27, indicating that its share price is 127% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

93.8% of LiveRamp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.7% of QXO shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of LiveRamp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.3% of QXO shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LiveRamp	0.01%	0.97%	0.75%
QXO	30.08%	1.58%	1.30%

Summary

LiveRamp beats QXO on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About QXO

QXO, Inc. operates as a business application, technology, and consulting company in North America. The company provides solutions for accounting and business management, financial reporting, enterprise resource planning, human capital management, warehouse management systems, customer relationship management, and business intelligence. It also offers value-added services that focuses on consulting and professional, specialized programming, training, and technical support services. In addition, the company provides information technology managed services, such as cybersecurity, application hosting, disaster recovery, business continuity, cloud, and other services; and data back-up, network maintenance, and upgrade services. It serves small and medium-sized businesses primarily in the manufacturing, distribution, and service industries. QXO, Inc. is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.