Contrasting Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Tremor International (NASDAQ:TRMR)

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG – Get Rating) and Tremor International (NASDAQ:TRMR – Get Rating) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Alphabet and Tremor International, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alphabet	0	1	16	0	2.94
Tremor International	0	2	4	0	2.67

Alphabet presently has a consensus target price of $132.80, suggesting a potential upside of 5.51%. Tremor International has a consensus target price of $11.67, suggesting a potential upside of 85.19%. Given Tremor International’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Tremor International is more favorable than Alphabet.

Volatility & Risk

Alphabet has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tremor International has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its share price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Alphabet and Tremor International’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alphabet	$282.84 billion	5.65	$59.97 billion	$4.49	28.03
Tremor International	$335.25 million	1.34	$22.74 million	$0.14	45.00

Alphabet has higher revenue and earnings than Tremor International. Alphabet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tremor International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

28.7% of Alphabet shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.7% of Tremor International shares are held by institutional investors. 13.0% of Alphabet shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Tremor International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Alphabet and Tremor International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alphabet	20.58%	22.84%	16.18%
Tremor International	6.78%	7.83%	5.15%

Summary

Alphabet beats Tremor International on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Alphabet

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Alphabet, Inc. engages in the business of delivering online advertising, cloud-based solutions that provide enterprise customers with infrastructure and platform services, the provision of communication and collaboration tools, and sales of other products and services such as apps and in-app purchases, hardware, and subscription-based products. It operates under the Google Services and Google Cloud segments. The Google Services segment includes ads, Android, Chrome, hardware, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. The Google Cloud segment offers Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on October 2, 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

About Tremor International

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Tremor International Ltd. provides end-to-end software platform that enables advertisers to reach relevant audiences and publishers. The company's demand side platform (DSP) offers full-service and self-managed marketplace access to advertisers and agencies in order to execute their digital marketing campaigns in real time across various ad formats. Its sell supply side platform (SSP) provides access to data and a comprehensive product suite to drive inventory management and revenue optimization. The company also offers data management platform solution, which integrates DSP and SSP solutions enabling advertisers and publishers to use data from various sources in order to optimize results of their advertising campaigns. It serves Ad buyers, advertisers, brands, agencies, and digital publishers in Israel, the United States, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company was formerly known as Taptica International Ltd. and changed its name to Tremor International Ltd. in September 2015. Tremor International Ltd. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.