Reviewing Beamr Imaging (NASDAQ:BMR) and MariaDB (NYSE:MRDB)

Beamr Imaging (NASDAQ:BMR) and MariaDB (NYSE:MRDB) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Beamr Imaging and MariaDB’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Beamr Imaging	$2.91 million	21.51	-$690,000.00	N/A	N/A
MariaDB	$53.11 million	0.70	-$51.86 million	($0.59)	-0.92

Beamr Imaging has higher earnings, but lower revenue than MariaDB.

Profitability

This table compares Beamr Imaging and MariaDB’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Beamr Imaging	N/A	N/A	N/A
MariaDB	-73.29%	N/A	-121.43%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Beamr Imaging and MariaDB, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Beamr Imaging	0	0	0	0	N/A
MariaDB	0	0	0	0	N/A

Insider and Institutional Ownership

0.7% of Beamr Imaging shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.7% of MariaDB shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Beamr Imaging shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.1% of MariaDB shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

Beamr Imaging has a beta of 5.22, meaning that its share price is 422% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MariaDB has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Beamr Imaging beats MariaDB on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Beamr Imaging

Beamr Imaging Ltd. provides video encoding, transcoding, and optimization solutions in the United States, Israel, and internationally. It offers a suite of video compression software encoder solutions, including Beamr 4 H.264, Beamr 4X H.264 content adaptive, Beamr 5 HEVC, and Beamr 5X HEVC content adaptive encoders; Beamr JPEGmini photo optimization software solutions for reducing joint photographic experts group file sizes; and Beamr Silicon IP block, a hardware solution for integration into dedicated video encoding application-specific integrated circuits, graphics processing units, and application processors. The company serves tier one over-the-top platforms, content distributors, video streaming platforms, and Hollywood studios. The company was formerly known as I.C.V.T Ltd. and changed its name to Beamr Imaging Ltd. in January 2015. Beamr Imaging Ltd. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

About MariaDB

MariaDB plc operates as a cloud database company in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers database solutions, including MariaDB Enterprise Server, a premium version of community server; MariaDB Xpand, a distributed structured query language (SQL) database for transactional workloads; MariaDB ColumnStore for data warehousing; MariaDB MaxScale for availability and load balancing; and MariaDB SkySQL, a database-as-a-service for its products on public clouds. The company also provides consulting, training, remote database administration, and engineering architecture services. It serves financial services, government, technology, retail, telecommunications, and transportation industries. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California.