Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD – Get Free Report) and Liberty TripAdvisor (NASDAQ:LTRPA – Get Free Report) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation and institutional ownership.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Applied Digital and Liberty TripAdvisor, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Applied Digital | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Liberty TripAdvisor | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Applied Digital presently has a consensus target price of $11.29, indicating a potential upside of 25.96%. Given Applied Digital’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Applied Digital is more favorable than Liberty TripAdvisor.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Applied Digital | -127.86% | -117.67% | -27.84% |
| Liberty TripAdvisor | -2.37% | -3.55% | -1.16% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
65.7% of Applied Digital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.4% of Liberty TripAdvisor shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Applied Digital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of Liberty TripAdvisor shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Applied Digital and Liberty TripAdvisor”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Applied Digital | $165.57 million | 12.06 | -$149.27 million | ($1.73) | -5.18 |
| Liberty TripAdvisor | $1.79 billion | 0.01 | -$285.00 million | ($0.57) | -0.48 |
Applied Digital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Liberty TripAdvisor. Applied Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liberty TripAdvisor, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk & Volatility
Applied Digital has a beta of 4.78, indicating that its share price is 378% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty TripAdvisor has a beta of 3.65, indicating that its share price is 265% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Applied Digital beats Liberty TripAdvisor 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 Liberty TripAdvisor
Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. operates a travel guidance platform that connects people and audiences with travel partners in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Brand Tripadvisor, Viator, and TheFork. It offers an online platform that provides content, travel guidance products and services, and two-sided marketplaces for travelers to discover, generate, and share authentic user-generated content in the form of ratings and reviews for destinations, points-of-interest, experiences, accommodations, restaurants, cruises, and other travel categories, including alternative accommodations, flights, and rental cars. The company provides click-based, display-based, and subscription-based advertising services. In addition, it operates Viator, an online marketplace that includes website, mobile web, and mobile app, which allows travelers to research and book tours, activities, and attractions in travel destinations worldwide; and TheFork, an online restaurant reservations platform that offers information and services for consumers to research and book restaurants. The company markets and sells its services through its own platform channels, online search engines, social media, email, media via public relations, partnerships, and content distribution. Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
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