Comparing Gorilla Technology Group (NASDAQ:GRRR) and Auddia (NASDAQ:AUUD)

Auddia (NASDAQ:AUUD) and Gorilla Technology Group (NASDAQ:GRRR) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, risk and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares Auddia and Gorilla Technology Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Auddia	N/A	-206.92%	-180.29%
Gorilla Technology Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Auddia and Gorilla Technology Group, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Auddia	1	0	0	0	1.00
Gorilla Technology Group	2	0	1	1	2.25

Gorilla Technology Group has a consensus price target of $24.50, suggesting a potential upside of 98.22%. Given Gorilla Technology Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Gorilla Technology Group is more favorable than Auddia.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

1.3% of Gorilla Technology Group shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Auddia shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Auddia and Gorilla Technology Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Auddia	N/A	N/A	-$8.72 million	($23.37)	-0.04
Gorilla Technology Group	$74.67 million	3.33	-$64.79 million	$0.27	45.78

Auddia has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gorilla Technology Group. Auddia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gorilla Technology Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Auddia has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Gorilla Technology Group has a beta of -0.25, meaning that its share price is 125% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Gorilla Technology Group beats Auddia on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Auddia

Auddia Inc., a technology company, develops AI Platform for the audio and podcast markets. The company's flagship product is faidr, which enables consumers to listen to various AM/FM radio station with commercial breaks replaced with personalized audio content, including popular and new music, news, and weather. It also provides Vodacast mobile app, an interactive differentiated podcasting that allows podcasters to give their audiences an interactive audio experience; and Podcast Hub, a content management system. The company was formerly known as Clip Interactive, LLC and changed its name to Auddia Inc. in November 2019. Auddia Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

About Gorilla Technology Group

Gorilla Technology Group Inc. provides video intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) security, and edge content management hardware, software, and services in the Asia Pacific region. The company operates through three segments: Video IoT, Security Convergence, and Other segments. It offers intelligent video analytics AI models for various verticals, such as behavioral analytics, people/face recognition, vehicle analysis, object recognition, and business intelligence that can scan video for patterns and distinguish specific items using AI algorithms and metadata. The company also provides information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) security convergence AI algorithms for system administrators and security engineers to detect suspicious behaviors in real time; network anomaly detection AI models; and endpoint malware and suspicious behavior detection AI models. In addition, it offers intelligent video analytics (IVA) appliances to analyze and turn unstructured video and picture data into structured data; IVAR appliance that provides insight into business and operations in a statistic dashboard; smart attendance to track employee health and safety, work hours, clock-ins/outs, and absenteeism, as well as to protect company assets and intellectual properties; event and video management system appliances to store event/object attributes in temporal-spatial big data database from Gorilla; and operation technology security appliance to monitor and control physical devices, processes, and infrastructure, as well as to protect industrial systems and networks from various threats. Further, the company provides smart retail SaaS for shopper demographics, visualized shopper behavior, and advanced data analytics, smart city and transportation SaaS for traffic management, public safety, and planning data; and endpoint security SaaS that protects endpoints against security threats. Gorilla Technology Group Inc. is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.