Financial Analysis: DXC Technology (NYSE:DXC) vs. PropertyGuru (NASDAQ:PGRU)

DXC Technology (NYSE:DXC – Get Rating) and PropertyGuru (NASDAQ:PGRU – Get Rating) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.

Volatility & Risk

DXC Technology has a beta of 2.15, meaning that its share price is 115% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PropertyGuru has a beta of -0.87, meaning that its share price is 187% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares DXC Technology and PropertyGuru’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
DXC Technology	$17.73 billion	0.47	-$149.00 million	($2.43)	-14.06
PropertyGuru	$100.71 million	10.64	-$187.41 million	N/A	N/A

DXC Technology has higher revenue and earnings than PropertyGuru.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

89.4% of DXC Technology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.5% of PropertyGuru shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of DXC Technology shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares DXC Technology and PropertyGuru’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DXC Technology	-3.67%	16.81%	4.23%
PropertyGuru	N/A	-200.18%	-53.33%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for DXC Technology and PropertyGuru, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DXC Technology	2	2	8	0	2.50
PropertyGuru	0	1	0	0	2.00

DXC Technology presently has a consensus price target of $40.23, indicating a potential upside of 17.77%. Given DXC Technology’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe DXC Technology is more favorable than PropertyGuru.

Summary

DXC Technology beats PropertyGuru on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

DXC Technology Company Profile (Get Rating)

DXC Technology Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides information technology services and solutions primarily in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. It operates in two segments, Global Business Services (GBS) and Global Infrastructure Services (GIS). The GBS segment offers a portfolio of analytics services and extensive partner ecosystem that help its customers to gain rapid insights, automate operations, and accelerate their digital transformation journeys; and software engineering and solutions that enable businesses to run and manage their mission-critical functions, transform their operations, and develop new ways of doing business. It also uses various technologies and methods to accelerate the creation, modernization, delivery, and maintenance of secure applications allowing customers to innovate faster while reducing risk, time to market, and total cost of ownership. In addition, this segment offers business process services, which include integration and optimization of front and back office processes, and agile process automation. The GIS segment adapts legacy apps to cloud, migrate the right workloads, and securely manage their multi-cloud environments; and offers security solutions help predict attacks, proactively respond to threats, and ensure compliance, as well as to protect data, applications, and infrastructure. It also provides IT outsourcing services support infrastructure, applications, and workplace IT operations, including hardware, software, physical/virtual end-user devices, collaboration tools, and IT support services. In addition, this segment offers workplace and mobility services to fit its customer's employee, business, and IT needs from intelligent collaboration; and modern device management, digital support services, Internet of Things, and mobility services. The company has a strategic collaboration with Microsoft. DXC Technology Company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia.

PropertyGuru Company Profile (Get Rating)

PropertyGuru Limited operates online property classifieds marketplaces in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. It serves agents and developers to advertise residential and commercial properties for sale or rent to property seekers. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Singapore.

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