Swvl (NASDAQ:SWVL) & Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER) Financial Analysis

Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER) and Swvl (NASDAQ:SWVL) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and valuation.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

80.2% of Uber Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.0% of Swvl shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Uber Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.9% of Swvl shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Uber Technologies and Swvl, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Uber Technologies	3	4	31	1	2.77
Swvl	1	0	0	0	1.00

Uber Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $104.60, indicating a potential upside of 48.46%. Given Uber Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Uber Technologies is more favorable than Swvl.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Uber Technologies and Swvl”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Uber Technologies	$52.02 billion	2.76	$10.05 billion	$4.01	17.57
Swvl	$24.17 million	0.57	$1.31 million	N/A	N/A

Uber Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Swvl.

Profitability

This table compares Uber Technologies and Swvl’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Uber Technologies	15.91%	41.40%	18.21%
Swvl	N/A	N/A	N/A

Risk and Volatility

Uber Technologies has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Swvl has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Uber Technologies beats Swvl on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Uber Technologies

Uber Technologies, Inc. develops and operates proprietary technology applications in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia excluding China and Southeast Asia. It operates through three segments: Mobility, Delivery, and Freight. The Mobility segment connects consumers with a range of transportation modalities, such as ridesharing, carsharing, micromobility, rentals, public transit, taxis, and other modalities; and offers riders in a variety of vehicle types, as well as financial partnerships products and advertising services. The Delivery segment allows to search for and discover restaurants to grocery, alcohol, convenience, and other retails; order a meal or other items; and Uber direct, a white-label Delivery-as-a-Service for retailers and restaurants, as well as advertising. The Freight segment manages transportation and logistics network, which connects shippers and carriers in digital marketplace including carriers upfronts, pricing, and shipment booking; and provides on-demand platform to automate logistics end-to-end transactions for small-and medium-sized business to global enterprises. The company was formerly known as Ubercab, Inc. and changed its name to Uber Technologies, Inc. in February 2011. Uber Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About Swvl

Swvl Holdings Corp. provides mass transit ridesharing services. It offers B2C Swvl Retail, which provides riders with a network of minibuses and other vehicles running on fixed or semi-fixed routes within cities; Swvl Travel that allows riders to book rides on long-distance intercity routes on vehicle available through the Swvl platform or through third-party services; and Swvl Business, a transport as a service enterprise product for businesses, schools, municipal transit agencies, and other customers. Swvl Holdings Corp. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.