LivePerson (NASDAQ:LPSN – Get Free Report) and Braze (NASDAQ:BRZE – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares LivePerson and Braze’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| LivePerson | $401.98 million | 0.13 | -$100.43 million | ($1.44) | -0.40 |
| Braze | $471.80 million | 8.37 | -$129.17 million | ($1.28) | -30.34 |
LivePerson has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Braze. Braze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LivePerson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| LivePerson | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Braze | 0 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 2.94 |
LivePerson presently has a consensus target price of $1.38, indicating a potential upside of 136.86%. Braze has a consensus target price of $60.88, indicating a potential upside of 56.73%. Given LivePerson’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe LivePerson is more favorable than Braze.
Volatility & Risk
LivePerson has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Braze has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares LivePerson and Braze’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| LivePerson | -31.27% | -56.82% | -3.45% |
| Braze | -25.06% | -27.85% | -15.66% |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
79.8% of LivePerson shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.5% of Braze shares are held by institutional investors. 9.0% of LivePerson shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.0% of Braze shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Braze beats LivePerson on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About LivePerson
LivePerson, Inc. engages in conversational artificial intelligence. It enables brands to leverage the Conversational Cloud's intelligence engine to connect with consumers through an integrated suite of mobile and online business messaging technologies. The company offers the Conversational Cloud, an enterprise-class digital customer conversation platform, which enables businesses and consumers to connect through conversational channels, such as voice, in-app, and mobile messaging. It also provides professional services; LivePerson's Conversational AI, including conversation builder, manager, and intelligence, and intent manager. In addition, it provides Voice AI, conversational intelligence and insights, and integration services. The company sells its products to Fortune 500 companies, Internet businesses, online merchants, automotive dealers, educational institution, public sector, and not-for-profit organizations. It operates in the United States, Canada, Latin America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the United Kingdom, and the Asia-Pacific. LivePerson, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
About Braze
Braze, Inc. operates a customer engagement platform that provides interactions between consumers and brands worldwide. The company offers Braze software development kits that automatically manage data ingestion and deliver mobile and web notifications, in-application/in-browser interstitial messages, and content cards; REST API that can be used to import or export data or to trigger workflows between Braze and brands' existing technology stacks; Partner Data Integrations, which allow brands to sync user cohorts from partners; Data Transformation, in which brands can programmatically sync and transform user data; and Braze Cloud Data Ingestion that enables brands to harness their customer data. It also offers classification products, including segmentation that can define reusable segments of consumers based upon attributes, events, or predictive propensity scores; segment insights, which allows customers to analyze how segments are performing relative to each other across a set of pre-selected key performance indicators; and predictive suite that allows customers to identify groups of consumers that are of critical business value. In addition, the company provides Canvas, an orchestration tool that allows customers to create journeys, mapping out multi-steps, and cross-channel messaging experiences; campaigns, which allows customers to send one set of single-channel or multi-channel messages to be delivered to customers in a particular user segment; event and API triggering; marketing pressure management; and reporting and analytics. Further, it offers personalization products, such as liquid templating platform, connected content platform, content blocks, intelligent timing and channel, personalized variant, and AI item recommendations, and catalogs; and action products. The company was formerly known as Appboy, Inc. and changed its name to Braze, Inc. in November 2017. Braze, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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