Reviewing iCoreConnect (NASDAQ:ICCT) and BigCommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC)

BigCommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC) and iCoreConnect (NASDAQ:ICCT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BigCommerce and iCoreConnect”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BigCommerce	$309.39 million	1.33	-$64.67 million	($0.54)	-9.78
iCoreConnect	$8.15 million	0.27	-$15.55 million	($3.09)	-0.06

iCoreConnect has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BigCommerce. BigCommerce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than iCoreConnect, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

BigCommerce has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, iCoreConnect has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for BigCommerce and iCoreConnect, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BigCommerce	1	5	2	0	2.13
iCoreConnect	0	0	0	0	N/A

BigCommerce presently has a consensus price target of $8.81, indicating a potential upside of 66.90%. Given BigCommerce’s higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe BigCommerce is more favorable than iCoreConnect.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

79.2% of BigCommerce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of iCoreConnect shares are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of BigCommerce shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 59.4% of iCoreConnect shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares BigCommerce and iCoreConnect’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BigCommerce	-12.68%	-82.39%	-4.57%
iCoreConnect	-260.79%	-614.22%	-152.86%

Summary

BigCommerce beats iCoreConnect on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BigCommerce

BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service platform for enterprises, small businesses, and mid-markets in the United States, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the AsiaPacific. The company provides a platform for launching and scaling an ecommerce operation, including store design, catalog management, hosting, checkout, order management, reporting, and pre-integration into third-party services. It serves stores in various sizes, product categories, and purchase types, such as business-to-business and business-to-consumer. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

About iCoreConnect

iCoreConnect Inc., a cloud-based software and technology company, provides Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) in the United States. The company’s products include iCoreRx, a HIPAA compliant electronic prescription software; iCorePDMP, a solution that checks the patient’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) history before prescribing controlled substances; iCoreVerify and iCoreVerify+, a HIPAA compliant SaaS solution that automatically retrieves a patients insurance eligibility breakdown to verify their benefits in advance of their appointment and on-demand; iCoreHuddle and iCoreHuddle+, a tool to instantly reveal the revenue potential of each patient; and iCoreCodeGenius, a medical coding reference SaaS solution. It also offers iCoreExchange, a SaaS email solution that allows doctors to send and receive secure email with attachments to and from other healthcare professionals; iCoreCloud, ability to backup their on-premise servers and computers to the cloud; iCoreClaims, for processing and managing claims submitted by policyholders or dental care providers; iCorePay, a patient payment processing solutions for payment and revenue cycle tracking; iCoreSecure, secure SaaS solution that solves privacy concerns in the insurance, real estate, financial and many other industry sectors; and iCoreIT, an IT managed services. The company was formerly known as iMedicor, Inc. and changed its name to iCoreConnect Inc. in June 2017. iCoreConnect Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Ocoee, Florida.