Financial Comparison: WiMi Hologram Cloud (NASDAQ:WIMI) & Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK)

WiMi Hologram Cloud (NASDAQ:WIMI) and Shutterstock (NYSE:SSTK) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for WiMi Hologram Cloud and Shutterstock, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
WiMi Hologram Cloud	1	0	0	0	1.00
Shutterstock	2	0	1	0	1.67

Shutterstock has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential downside of 50.22%. Given Shutterstock’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Shutterstock is more favorable than WiMi Hologram Cloud.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares WiMi Hologram Cloud and Shutterstock”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
WiMi Hologram Cloud	$60.07 million	0.47	$44.00 million	N/A	N/A
Shutterstock	$989.92 million	0.52	$45.50 million	($0.58)	-24.24

Shutterstock has higher revenue and earnings than WiMi Hologram Cloud.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

1.0% of WiMi Hologram Cloud shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.8% of Shutterstock shares are held by institutional investors. 35.6% of WiMi Hologram Cloud shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.3% of Shutterstock shares are held by 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.

Profitability

This table compares WiMi Hologram Cloud and Shutterstock’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
WiMi Hologram Cloud	N/A	N/A	N/A
Shutterstock	-2.19%	14.12%	5.98%

Risk and Volatility

WiMi Hologram Cloud has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shutterstock has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Shutterstock beats WiMi Hologram Cloud on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About WiMi Hologram Cloud

WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. provides augmented reality (AR) based holographic services and products in China. It operates in three segments: AR Advertising Services, AR Entertainment, and Semiconductor Related Products and Services. The company primarily offers holographic AR advertising services and holographic AR entertainment products. Its holographic AR advertising software enables users to insert into video footages real or animated three-dimensional objects; and online holographic AR advertising solution embeds holographic AR ads into films and shows. The company's holographic AR entertainment products consist primarily of payment middleware software, game distribution platform, and holographic mixed reality software. In addition, it engages in the provision of central processing algorithm services, and provides computer chip products to enterprise customers, as well as sells comprehensive solutions for central processing algorithms and related services with software and hardware integration. Further, the company's holographic AR technologies are used in software engineering, content production, cloud, big data, and artificial intelligence. Additionally, it provides hardware performance optimization and software algorithm optimization services to online game developers and game distributors. The company serves a range of industries, including manufacturing, real estate, entertainment, technology, media and telecommunications, travel, education, and retail. WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.

About Shutterstock

Shutterstock, Inc. provides platform to connect brands and businesses to high quality content in North America, Europe, and internationally. The company offers image services consisting of photographs, vectors, and illustrations, which is used in visual communications, such as websites, digital and print marketing materials, corporate communications, books, publications, and others; footage services, including video clips, filmed by industry experts and cinema grade video effects in HD and 4K formats that are integrated into websites, social media, marketing campaigns, and cinematic productions; and music services comprising music tracks and sound effects, which are used to complement images and footage. It also provides 3 dimensional models consisting of 3D models used in various industries, such as advertising, media and video production, gaming, retail, education, design, and architecture; and generative AI content comprising images generated from algorithms trained with ethically sourced content. The company offers its services under the Shutterstock, Pond5, TurboSquid, PicMonkey, PremiumBeat, Splash News, Bigstock, and Offset brand names. In addition, it operates a collection of graphics interchange format visuals and stickers that supplies casual conversational content. The company serves corporate professionals and organizations, media and broadcast companies, and small and medium-sized businesses, and individual creators through digital, live sales, and client management channels. Shutterstock, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, New York.