Analyzing Robot Consulting (NASDAQ:LAWR) and Commerce.com (NASDAQ:CMRC)

Commerce.com (NASDAQ:CMRC) and Robot Consulting (NASDAQ:LAWR) are both small-cap services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Commerce.com and Robot Consulting, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Commerce.com	2	2	2	0	2.00
Robot Consulting	0	0	0	0	0.00

Commerce.com presently has a consensus target price of $8.50, indicating a potential upside of 74.54%. Given Commerce.com’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Commerce.com is more favorable than Robot Consulting.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

79.2% of Commerce.com shares are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of Commerce.com shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Commerce.com and Robot Consulting”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Commerce.com	$337.54 million	1.16	-$27.03 million	($0.22)	-22.14
Robot Consulting	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Robot Consulting has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Commerce.com.

Profitability

This table compares Commerce.com and Robot Consulting’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Commerce.com	-5.37%	-25.13%	-2.77%
Robot Consulting	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Commerce.com beats Robot Consulting on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Commerce.com

BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service platform for small businesses, mid-markets, and large enterprises in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company’s platform provides various services for launching and scaling e-commerce operation, including store design, catalog management, hosting, checkout, order management, reporting, and pre-integrations. As of December 31, 2021, it served approximately 60,000 online stores across industries. BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

About Robot Consulting

Robot Consulting Co. Ltd. is a platform service provider focusing on human resource solutions with an intention to expand into legal technology and the metaverse. The Company’s major product, Labor Robot, is a cloud-based human resource management system which helps users track employee attendance, manage sales orders and journalize accounting items. Robot Consulting Co. Ltd. is based in Tokyo, Japan.