iClick Interactive Asia Group (NASDAQ:ICLK – Get Rating) and BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL – Get Rating) are both business services companies, but which company is better? We’ll compare the two companies based on valuation strength, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and profitability.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

33.1% of the shares of iClick Interactive Asia Group are held by institutional investors. 9.7% of BlackLine shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership indicates that large fund managers, hedge funds, and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and risk

iClick Interactive Asia Group has a beta of 0.6, suggesting its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. In comparison, BlackLine has a beta of 0.91, suggesting its stock price is 9 % less volatile than the S&P 500.

Benefits and evaluation

This table compares the revenue, earnings per share and valuation of iClick Interactive Asia Group and BlackLine.

iClick Interactive Asia Group has higher revenue, but lower revenue than BlackLine. BlackLine trades at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iClick Interactive Asia Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares the net margins, return on equity and return on assets of iClick Interactive Asia Group and BlackLine.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent valuations and price targets for iClick Interactive Asia Group and BlackLine, as provided by MarketBeat.

iClick Interactive Asia Group currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,517.41%. BlackLine has a consensus price target of $101.00, indicating a potential upside of 38.79%. Given iClick Interactive Asia Group’s likely higher upside, equity research analysts clearly believe that iClick Interactive Asia Group is more favorable than BlackLine.

iClick Interactive Asia Group Company Profile (Get an assessment)

iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides online marketing services in the People’s Republic of China and internationally. It offers iAudience, an audience identification solution that allows marketers to research, identify and personalize their target audience to generate or improve brand awareness; iAccess and iActivation, an audience engagement and activation solution designed for brand awareness and performance-driven campaigns; iExpress, the lightweight version of the iAccess solution for small and medium-sized businesses; iNsights, an online campaign results tracking and measurement solution; and iExperience, a content creation solution. The Company also provides mobile marketing solutions, which are non-search engine marketing solutions for identifying, engaging and activating audience on mobile applications, as well as monitoring and measuring the results of online marketing activities. on these channels; and other solutions that focus on audience identification, engagement and activation across non-mobile app content distribution channels including PC banner displays, PC video ads and marketing search engines. Additionally, it offers enterprise solutions that help clients gather information from various consumer touchpoints and integrate it into a single data management platform to drive sales and marketing decisions. into new retail, online education, real estate and other sectors. The Company sells its solutions by entering into sales agreements with marketing entities or agencies, including marketing campaign agreements. It has a strategic collaboration with Tencent International Business Group to co-develop Smart Retail and Smart Travel SaaS solutions. The company was previously known as Optimix Media Asia Limited and changed its name to iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited in March 2017. iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong .

Black Line Company Profile (Get an assessment)

BlackLine, Inc. provides cloud-based solutions to automate and streamline accounting and financial operations worldwide. It offers financial close management solutions, such as account reconciliations that provide a centralized workspace for users to collaborate on account reconciliations; transaction matching which analyzes and reconciles high volumes of individual transactions; and task management to create and manage processes and task lists. The company’s financial close management solutions also include journal entry that allows users to generate, review, and post manual journal entries; a variance analysis that monitors and identifies abnormal fluctuations in balance sheet and income statement account balances; the Consolidation Integrity Manager who manages the automated system-to-system connection process that occurs during the consolidation phase of financial close; and Compliance, an integrated solution that facilitates compliance-related initiatives, consolidates project management, and provides visibility into self-assessments and control testing. Additionally, it offers Accounts Receivable Automation solutions, which include Cash Application, Credit and Risk Management, Collections Management, Disputes and Deductions, Team and Task Management and AR intelligence solutions. Additionally, the company provides an intercompany workflow that stores authorizations by entity and transaction type, ensuring that the initiator and approver of the intercompany transaction are authorized to conduct business; intercompany processing, which records an organization’s intercompany transactions; and clearing and settlement which generates a real-time settlement matrix, which shows the balance of transactions. The company sells its solutions primarily through a direct sales force to multinationals, large national enterprises and mid-sized companies in various industries. BlackLine, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California.

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