Head to Head Comparison: Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) vs. Digerati Technologies (OTCMKTS:DTGI)

Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) and Digerati Technologies (OTCMKTS:DTGI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Volatility and Risk

Applied Digital has a beta of 4.65, meaning that its stock price is 365% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Digerati Technologies has a beta of -0.29, meaning that its stock price is 129% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

65.7% of Applied Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Applied Digital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.6% of Digerati Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Applied Digital and Digerati Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Applied Digital	-74.95%	-88.87%	-20.16%
Digerati Technologies	-44.32%	N/A	-35.63%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Applied Digital and Digerati Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Applied Digital	0	0	6	0	3.00
Digerati Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00

Applied Digital currently has a consensus target price of $10.50, indicating a potential upside of 48.51%. Given Applied Digital’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Applied Digital is more favorable than Digerati Technologies.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Applied Digital and Digerati Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Applied Digital	$165.57 million	9.20	-$149.27 million	($1.17)	-6.04
Digerati Technologies	$31.62 million	0.07	-$8.29 million	($0.09)	-0.13

Digerati Technologies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Applied Digital. Applied Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Digerati Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Applied Digital beats Digerati Technologies on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Applied Digital

Applied Digital Corporation designs, develops, and operates datacenters in North America. Its datacenters provide digital infrastructure solutions to the high-performance computing industry. The company also provides artificial intelligence cloud services, high performance computing datacenter hosting, and crypto datacenter hosting services. The company was formerly known as Applied Blockchain, Inc. and changed its name to Applied Digital Corporation in November 2022. Applied Digital Corporation is based in Dallas, Texas.

About Digerati Technologies

Digerati Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides a portfolio of Internet-based telephony products and services through its cloud application platform and session-based communication network in the United States. The company offers Internet broadband, fiber, mobile broadband, and cloud wide area network (WAN) or software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions; cloud communication services, including fully hosted IP/PBX, video conferencing, mobile applications, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) transport, session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking, call center applications, auto attendant, voice and web conferencing, call recording, messaging, voicemail to email conversion, integrated mobility applications, and customized VoIP services; and remote network monitoring, data backup, and disaster recovery services, as well as enterprise-class data and connectivity solutions, such as cloud WAN or SD-WAN, fiber, mobile broadband, and Ethernet over copper services. It primarily serves small to medium-sized enterprise customers through distributors and value-added resellers. The company was formerly known as ATSI Communications Inc. and changed its name to Digerati Technologies, Inc. in March 2011. Digerati Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.