Head to Head Contrast: Agora (NASDAQ:API) versus OneStream (NASDAQ:OS)

Agora (NASDAQ:API) and OneStream (NASDAQ:OS) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends and risk.

Volatility & Risk

Agora has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OneStream has a beta of 1.99, suggesting that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Agora and OneStream, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Agora	0	2	1	0	2.33
OneStream	3	17	0	0	1.85

Agora currently has a consensus target price of $6.80, indicating a potential upside of 57.04%. OneStream has a consensus target price of $24.06, indicating a potential upside of 0.26%. Given Agora’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Agora is more favorable than OneStream.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

40.4% of Agora shares are held by institutional investors. 12.8% of OneStream shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Agora and OneStream”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Agora	$141.06 million	2.68	$9.53 million	$0.11	39.36
OneStream	$601.93 million	9.80	-$50.30 million	($0.28)	-85.71

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

Profitability

This table compares Agora and OneStream’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Agora	7.23%	1.96%	1.52%
OneStream	-8.36%	11.28%	6.68%

Summary

Agora beats OneStream on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Agora

Agora, Inc. operates in real-time engagement technology business in the People's Republic of China, the United States, and internationally. The company offers real-time engagement platform-as-a-services providing developers with application programming interfaces to embed real-time voice, video, interactive live-streaming, chat, whiteboard, and artificial intelligence capabilities into their applications. It also provides video and voice calling, interactive live and broadcast streaming, chat, signaling, and interactive whiteboard products; and extensions, such as analytics, recording, AI noise suppression, 3D spatial audio, real-time transcription, and extensions marketplace. In addition, the company offers Application Platforms, including Flexible Classroom, a low-code application Platform as a Service, which combines video, voice, chat, signaling, whiteboard and recording functionalities into an integrated cloud-based solution for education providers; and App Builder, a no-code application platform, designed for developers with little or no coding experience to build their own applications with video conference and live streaming functionalities. It operates through Agora and Shengwang brands. Agora, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

About OneStream

OneStream, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) based enterprise finance platform. The firm offers Digital Finance Cloud, an AI-enabled and extensible software platform that unifies core financial functions and operational data and processes. The company was founded by Craig Colby and Thomas Shea on October 15, 2021 and is headquartered in Birmingham, MI.