Analyzing Liquid Holdings Group (OTCMKTS:LIQDQ) and UiPath (NYSE:PATH)

Liquid Holdings Group (OTCMKTS:LIQDQ) and UiPath (NYSE:PATH) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Liquid Holdings Group and UiPath”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Liquid Holdings Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
UiPath	$1.43 billion	4.15	-$89.88 million	($0.13)	-83.12

Liquid Holdings Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than UiPath.

Profitability

This table compares Liquid Holdings Group and UiPath’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Liquid Holdings Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
UiPath	-6.49%	-4.14%	-2.82%

Risk and Volatility

Liquid Holdings Group has a beta of -5.19, meaning that its share price is 619% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UiPath has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

62.5% of UiPath shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.0% of Liquid Holdings Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of UiPath shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Liquid Holdings Group and UiPath, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Liquid Holdings Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
UiPath	2	15	2	0	2.00

UiPath has a consensus target price of $13.62, suggesting a potential upside of 26.03%. Given UiPath’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe UiPath is more favorable than Liquid Holdings Group.

Summary

UiPath beats Liquid Holdings Group on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Liquid Holdings Group

Liquid Holdings Group, Inc. is in the process of liquidation of its assets. Previously, it was engaged in the provision of cloud-based trading and portfolio management solutions. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Hoboken, New Jersey.

About UiPath

UiPath Inc. provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers a suite of interrelated software to build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automation within the organization. Its platform's embedded AI, ML, and NLP capabilities improve decisioning and information processing; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; multi-tenant platform enterprise deployment with security and governance and Automation Cloud, which enables customers to begin automating without the need to provision infrastructure, install applications, or perform additional configurations; intuitive interface and low-code, drag-and-drop functionality; signed to enable people and automations to work together; and tracks, measures, and forecasts the performance of automations, enables customers to gain powerful insights and generate key performance indicators with actionable metric. It serves banking and financial services, healthcare, insurance, public sectors, manufacturing, retail, and telecom industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.