Contrasting Movella (NASDAQ:MVLA) & ON24 (NYSE:ONTF)

Movella (NASDAQ:MVLA) and ON24 (NYSE:ONTF) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Movella and ON24, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Movella	0	0	1	0	3.00
ON24	0	4	0	0	2.00

Movella presently has a consensus price target of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 24,900.00%. ON24 has a consensus price target of $7.67, suggesting a potential upside of 29.72%. Given Movella’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Movella is more favorable than ON24.

Volatility & Risk

Movella has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ON24 has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

40.9% of Movella shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.9% of ON24 shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of Movella shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.3% of ON24 shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Movella and ON24’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Movella	N/A	N/A	N/A
ON24	-28.14%	-21.81%	-14.31%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Movella and ON24’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Movella	-$559,000.00	-0.91	-$220,000.00	N/A	N/A
ON24	$153.64 million	1.61	-$51.79 million	($1.04)	-5.68

Movella has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ON24.

Summary

Movella beats ON24 on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Movella

Movella Holdings Inc. operates as a full-stack provider of sensors, software, and analytics that enable the digitization of movement in the United States. Its real-time character movement in digital environments transforms movement into digital data that provides actionable insights. The company offers Xsens 3D Body Motion Systems comprises wearable sensor systems and motion capture solutions, including MVN Animate or MVN Analyze software, a full-body wearable sensor system, which captures the motion of the human body. It also provides Xsens sensor modules that enables customers to accelerate the development of motion-based applications; and DOT wearables for analysis and reporting of human kinematics. In addition, the company offers Kinduct human performance platform that provides biomechanical, biometric, and objective data for athletic performance, wellness, and injury risk. It serves the entertainment, health and sports, and automation and mobility markets. Movella Holdings Inc. is based in Henderson, Nevada.

About ON24

ON24, Inc. provides a cloud-based intelligent engagement platform that enables businesses to convert customer engagement into revenue through interactive webinar, virtual event, and multimedia content experiences worldwide. The company provides ON24 Elite, for live and interactive webinar experience; ON24 Breakouts, for live breakout room experience that facilitates networking, collaboration, and interactivity between users; ON24 Forums, for live and interactive experience, which facilitates video-to-video interaction between presenters and audiences; ON24 Go Live, for live and interactive video event experience that enables presenters and attendees to engage face-to-face in real-time; and ON24 Virtual Confrence, for live and large scale managed virtual event experience. It also offers ON24 Engagement Hub, for always-on multimedia content experience; ON24 Target, for personalized and curated landing page experience; ON24 Intelligence, for analytics backbone that captures first-person data to power the insights, benchmarking, reporting, and artificial intelligence and machine learning engine; ON24 AI-powered ACE, for enabling hyper-personalization at scale across ON24 experiences; ON24 Connect, for ecosystem of third-party application integrations; and ON24 Services and Platform Support, which provides a portfolio of professional services that provide consulting and support for product and platform adoption. In addition, the company offers consulting services, such as experience management, monitoring and production, implementation, and other support services. It sells its products through direct sales. The company serves technology, financial services, healthcare, industrial and manufacturing, professional services, and business-to-business information service companies. The company was formerly known as NewsDirect, Inc. and changed its name to ON24, Inc. in December 1998. ON24, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.