Critical Survey: Fair Isaac (NYSE:FICO) versus Dazed (OTCMKTS:MEDH)

Dazed (OTCMKTS:MEDH) and Fair Isaac (NYSE:FICO) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.

Volatility and Risk

Dazed has a beta of 3, indicating that its share price is 200% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fair Isaac has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

85.8% of Fair Isaac shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Fair Isaac shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Dazed and Fair Isaac’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Dazed	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fair Isaac	29.99%	-62.28%	27.53%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Dazed and Fair Isaac’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Dazed	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fair Isaac	$1.51 billion	23.45	$429.38 million	$19.05	75.39

Fair Isaac has higher revenue and earnings than Dazed.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Dazed and Fair Isaac, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Dazed	0	0	0	0	N/A
Fair Isaac	1	2	6	0	2.56

Fair Isaac has a consensus target price of $1,274.33, indicating a potential downside of 11.26%. Given Fair Isaac’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fair Isaac is more favorable than Dazed.

Summary

Fair Isaac beats Dazed on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Dazed

Dazed, Inc. focuses on retail, distribution, hospitality, licensing, and franchising of portfolio of counterculture brands. The company was formerly known as MedX Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Dazed, Inc. in October 2022. Dazed, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

About Fair Isaac

Fair Isaac Corporation develops analytic, software, and digital decisioning technologies and services that enable businesses to automate, enhance, and connect decisions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Scores and Software. The Software segment provides pre-configured analytic and decision management solution designed for various business needs or processes, such as account origination, customer management, customer engagement, fraud detection, financial crimes compliance, and marketing, as well as associated professional services. This segment also offers FICO Platform, a modular software offering designed to support advanced analytic and decision use cases, as well as stand-alone analytic and decisioning software that can be configured by customers to address a wide range of business use cases. The Scores segment provides business-to-business scoring solutions and services for consumers that give clients access to predictive credit and other scores that can be integrated into their transaction streams and decision-making processes, as well as business-to-consumer scoring solutions comprising myFICO.com subscription offerings. It offers FICO Customer Analytics, FICO Responsible AI, FICO Advisors, FICO Business Outcome Simulator, FICO Forecaster, FICO TRIAD Customer Manager, FICO Blaze Advisor, FICO Xpress Optimization, FICO Falcon Fraud Manager, FICO Analytics Workbench, FICO Data Orchestrator, FICO DMP Streaming, FICO Decision Optimizer, and FICO Strategy Director, as well as software implementation and configuration services. The company markets its products and services primarily through its direct sales organization and indirect channels, as well as online. The company was formerly known as Fair Isaac & Company, Inc. and changed its name to Fair Isaac Corporation in July 1992. Fair Isaac Corporation was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana.