Financial Review: Abits Group (NASDAQ:ABTS) & Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ:IAS)

Abits Group (NASDAQ:ABTS) and Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ:IAS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Abits Group and Integral Ad Science, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Abits Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
Integral Ad Science	0	14	1	0	2.07

Integral Ad Science has a consensus price target of $12.81, suggesting a potential upside of 25.57%. Given Integral Ad Science’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Integral Ad Science is more favorable than Abits Group.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Abits Group and Integral Ad Science”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Abits Group	$7.04 million	2.56	-$910,000.00	N/A	N/A
Integral Ad Science	$569.84 million	2.97	$37.79 million	$0.34	30.00

Integral Ad Science has higher revenue and earnings than Abits Group.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.2% of Abits Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.8% of Integral Ad Science shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Abits Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Integral Ad Science shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility & Risk

Abits Group has a beta of 2.71, meaning that its stock price is 171% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Integral Ad Science has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Abits Group and Integral Ad Science’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Abits Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Integral Ad Science	9.79%	5.00%	4.46%

Summary

Integral Ad Science beats Abits Group on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Abits Group

Abits Group Inc. operates in the bitcoin mining business in the United States. The company was formerly known as Moxian (BVI) Inc and changed its name to Abits Group Inc. in November 2023. Abits Group Inc. was incorporated in 2021 and is based in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

About Integral Ad Science

Integral Ad Science Holding Corp. operates as a digital advertising verification company in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Australia, Japan, India, and the Nordics. The company provides IAS Signal, a cloud-based technology platform that offers return on ad spend needs; and deliver independent measurement and verification of digital advertising across devices, channels, and formats, including desktop, mobile, connected TV, social, display, and video. Its digital media quality solutions offer ad fraud detection and prevention, viewability, brand safety and suitability, contextual targeting, inventory yield management, and reporting. In addition, the company offers Quality Impressions, a metric designed to verify that digital ads are served to a real person rather than a bot, viewable on-screen, and presented in a brand-safe and suitable environment in the correct geography; Context Control solution that delivers contextual targeting and brand suitability capabilities; pre-bid programmatic and post-bid verification solutions for advertisers; and optimization and verification solutions for publishers. It serves advertisers and agencies, publishers, and supply side platforms. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, New York.