Xylo Technologies (NASDAQ:XYLO) & Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK) Critical Contrast

Xylo Technologies (NASDAQ:XYLO) and Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, dividends and earnings.

Risk and Volatility

Xylo Technologies has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Verisk Analytics has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Xylo Technologies and Verisk Analytics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Xylo Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Verisk Analytics	32.65%	274.13%	20.34%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Xylo Technologies and Verisk Analytics, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Xylo Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00
Verisk Analytics	0	6	2	1	2.44

Verisk Analytics has a consensus target price of $293.11, indicating a potential upside of 5.23%. Given Verisk Analytics’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Verisk Analytics is more favorable than Xylo Technologies.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.3% of Xylo Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of Verisk Analytics shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Xylo Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Verisk Analytics shares are owned by company 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Xylo Technologies and Verisk Analytics”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Xylo Technologies	$57.64 million	0.06	-$16.02 million	N/A	N/A
Verisk Analytics	$2.68 billion	14.67	$614.60 million	$6.41	43.46

Verisk Analytics has higher revenue and earnings than Xylo Technologies.

Summary

Verisk Analytics beats Xylo Technologies on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Xylo Technologies

Xylo Technologies Ltd, a technology-based company, provides medical-related devices and products in the United States, Europe, Asia, Israel, and internationally. The company operates through Corporate, E-commerce, Online Advertising & Internet Traffic Routing, Online Event Management, and Others segments. It offers Medigus Ultrasonic Surgical Endostapler, an endoscopy system, which is used for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease. The company also develops biological gels to protect patients against biological threats and reduce the intrusion of allergens and viruses through the upper airways and eye cavities. In addition, it provides digital advertising platform; and operates online stores for the sale of various consumer products on the Amazon online marketplace, as well as an online event management and ticketing platform. Further, the company develops wireless vehicle battery charging technologies and modular electronic vehicles. The company was formerly known as Medigus Ltd. and changed its name to Xylo Technologies Ltd in April 2024. Xylo Technologies Ltd was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

About Verisk Analytics

Verisk Analytics, Inc. provides data analytics and technology solutions to the insurance markets in the United States and internationally. It offers policy language, prospective loss costs, policy writing and rating rules, and various underwriting solutions for risk selection and segmentation, pricing, and workflow optimization; property- and auto- specific rating and underwriting information solutions that allows clients to understand, quantify, underwrite, mitigate, and avoid potential loss for risks; catastrophe modeling solutions, which enables companies to identify, quantify, and plan for the financial consequences of catastrophes for use by insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, financial institutions, and governments. The company also provides life insurance solutions for transforming current workflows in life insurance underwriting, claim insights, policy administration, unclaimed property/equity, compliance and fraud detection, and actuarial and portfolio modeling; Marketing Solutions, such as compliant, real-time decisioning, profitability, and risk assessment for inbound consumer interactions; and international underwriting and claims solutions. In addition, it offers claims insurance solutions, which provides analytics in fraud detection, compliance reporting, subrogation liability assessment, litigation, and repair cost estimation and valuation solutions; and casualty solutions, such as compliance, casualty claims decision support, and workflow automation solutions. Further, the company supplies software to the specialty insurance market. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.