Comparing Five9 (NASDAQ:FIVN) and EVmo (OTCMKTS:YAYO)

EVmo (OTCMKTS:YAYO) and Five9 (NASDAQ:FIVN) are both transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

Risk & Volatility

EVmo has a beta of 2.31, suggesting that its share price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Five9 has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for EVmo and Five9, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
EVmo	0	0	0	0	0.00
Five9	0	5	14	0	2.74

Five9 has a consensus price target of $59.22, indicating a potential upside of 44.55%. Given Five9’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Five9 is more favorable than EVmo.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares EVmo and Five9″s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
EVmo	$12.56 million	0.00	-$7.14 million	N/A	N/A
Five9	$910.49 million	3.38	-$81.76 million	($0.50)	-81.94

EVmo has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Five9.

Profitability

This table compares EVmo and Five9’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
EVmo	N/A	N/A	N/A
Five9	-3.66%	-1.53%	-0.44%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

96.6% of Five9 shares are held by institutional investors. 17.8% of EVmo shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Five9 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

EVmo beats Five9 on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About EVmo

EVmo, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the ridesharing and vehicle rental businesses in the United States. It operates Rideshare Platform, an online bookings platform which maintains a fleet of passenger vehicles and transit vans for use in last-mile logistical space to rent drivers in the ridesharing and delivery gig companies. The company was formerly known as Rideshare Rental, Inc. and changed its name to EVmo, Inc. in February 2021.EVmo, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California.

About Five9

Five9, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides intelligent cloud software for contact centers in the United States, India, and internationally. It offers a virtual contact center cloud platform that delivers a suite of applications, which enables the breadth of contact center-related customer service, sales, and marketing functions. The company’s platform comprises of including interactive virtual agent, agent assist, workflow automation, workforce engagement management, AI insights, and AI summaries that allows to manage and optimize customer interactions across voice, chat, email, web, social media, and mobile channels directly or through its application programming interfaces. It also matches each customer interaction with an agent resource and delivers customer data to the agent in real-time through integrations with adjacent enterprise applications, such as CRM software, to optimize the customer experience and enhance agent productivity. The company serves customers in various industries, such as banking and financial services, business process outsourcers, retail, healthcare, technology, and education. Five9, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in San Ramon, California.