Financial Review: DoubleVerify (NYSE:DV) vs. Pintec Technology (NASDAQ:PT)

Pintec Technology (NASDAQ:PT) and DoubleVerify (NYSE:DV) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends and profitability.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

6.6% of Pintec Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of DoubleVerify shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Pintec Technology shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of DoubleVerify shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Pintec Technology and DoubleVerify’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pintec Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A
DoubleVerify	10.33%	5.99%	5.18%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Pintec Technology and DoubleVerify”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pintec Technology	$32.55 million	0.46	-$11.12 million	N/A	N/A
DoubleVerify	$638.46 million	5.29	$71.47 million	$0.37	53.95

DoubleVerify has higher revenue and earnings than Pintec Technology.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Pintec Technology and DoubleVerify, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pintec Technology	0	1	0	0	2.00
DoubleVerify	2	5	14	0	2.57

DoubleVerify has a consensus price target of $24.11, suggesting a potential upside of 20.77%. Given DoubleVerify’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe DoubleVerify is more favorable than Pintec Technology.

Volatility and Risk

Pintec Technology has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DoubleVerify has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

DoubleVerify beats Pintec Technology on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Pintec Technology

Pintec Technology Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of technology-enabled financial and digital services to the ecosystem of MSMEs and SMEs in the People’s Republic of China. The company connects business partners and financial partners on its open platform and enables them to provide financial services to end users. It provides point-of-sale financing solutions to its business partners on their platforms or on its own platform under the Dumiao brand; and business installment loan solutions to its business partners on their platforms or on its own platform. The company also offers wealth management solutions, including a fund distribution solution that enables partners to offer and distribute mutual fund products to their customers, either under its Hongdian brand or as a white label solution; and a robo-advisory solution under the Polaris brand which enables its financial and business partners to provide robo-advisory services to their customers. In addition, it provides international installment loan solutions; Myfin, an insurance solution, that enables its partners to offer and distribute insurance products to its users; value added tools to business and financial partners for deploying its solutions, monitor and evaluate performance, and scale their business; digital marketing tools to target users, implement intelligent digital marketing activities, and increase marketing efficiencies and effectiveness; and real time monitoring tools that offer comprehensive and visualized performance monitoring interface. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.

About DoubleVerify

DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc. provides a software platform for digital media measurement, and data analytics in the United States and internationally. The company provides solutions to advertisers that enable advertisers to increase the effectiveness and quality and return on their digital advertising investments. It offers DV Authentic Ad, a metric of digital media quality, which evaluates the existence of fraud-free, brand-suitable, viewability, and geography for each digital ad; DV Authentic Attention that provides actionable, and comprehensive data to drive campaign performance; and Custom Contextual solution, which allows advertisers to match their ads to relevant content to maximize user engagement and drive campaign performance. In addition, the company provides DV Publisher suite, a solution for digital publishers to manage revenue and increase inventory yield by improving video delivery, identifying lost or unfilled sales, and aggregate data across all inventory sources; and DV Pinnacle, a service and analytics platform user interface that allows its customers to adjust and deploy controls for their media plan and track campaign performance metrics across channels, formats, and devices. Further, it offers software solutions are integrated in the digital advertising ecosystem, including programmatic platforms, social media channels, and digital publishers. It serves brands, publishers, and other supply-side customers covering various industry verticals, including consumer packaged goods, financial services, telecommunications, technology, automotive, and healthcare. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, New York.