Mawson Infrastructure Group (NASDAQ:MIGI – Get Free Report) and Telos (NASDAQ:TLS – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Mawson Infrastructure Group and Telos, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Mawson Infrastructure Group | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.67 |
| Telos | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2.17 |
Telos has a consensus price target of $7.75, indicating a potential upside of 27.89%. Given Telos’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Telos is more favorable than Mawson Infrastructure Group.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Mawson Infrastructure Group | $51.59 million | 0.15 | -$46.13 million | ($12.60) | -0.53 |
| Telos | $108.27 million | 4.13 | -$52.52 million | ($0.41) | -14.78 |
Mawson Infrastructure Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Telos. Telos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mawson Infrastructure Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Mawson Infrastructure Group and Telos’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Mawson Infrastructure Group | -24.28% | N/A | -22.36% |
| Telos | -20.47% | -26.12% | -19.88% |
Risk & Volatility
Mawson Infrastructure Group has a beta of 4.62, meaning that its share price is 362% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telos has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
6.9% of Mawson Infrastructure Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.1% of Telos shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Mawson Infrastructure Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.9% of Telos shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Telos beats Mawson Infrastructure Group on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Mawson Infrastructure Group
Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. develops and operates digital infrastructure for digital currency on the bitcoin blockchain network in the United States. It engages in digital currency or bitcoin self-mining, customer co-location and related services, and energy markets, as well as operates data center facilities. The company is based in Midland, Pennsylvania.
About Telos
Telos Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides cyber, cloud, and enterprise security solutions worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Security Solutions and Secure Networks. It provides Xacta, a platform for enterprise cyber risk management and security compliance automation; and consulting, assessment and compliance, engineering and evaluation, operations, and penetration testing services. The company also offers Telos Automated Message Handling System, a web-based organizational message distribution and management for mission-critical communications used by military field operatives; and Telos Advanced Cyber Analytics solution, which is a threat feed source of global Internet Protocol addresses known to engage in potentially malicious activity, including mass scanning and generic opportunistic attacks; and Telos Ghost, a solution to eliminate cyberattack surfaces by obfuscating and encrypting data, masking user identity and location, and hiding network resources, as well as provides security and privacy for intelligence gathering, cyber threat protection, securing critical infrastructure, and protecting communications and applications. In addition, the company provides IDTrust360, an enterprise digital trusted identity risk platform for extending flexible hybrid cloud identity services; and ONYX, a touchless fingerprint biometric solution for mobile devices. Further, it offers secure mobility solutions that enable remote work and minimize operational and security concerns across and beyond the enterprise; and network management and defense services for operating, administrating, and defending complex enterprise networks and services for defensive cyber operations. It serves the United States federal government, large commercial businesses, state and local governments, and international customers. Telos Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia.
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