Critical Review: Tremor International (NASDAQ:TRMR) & Oblong (NYSE:OBLG)

Tremor International (NASDAQ:TRMR) and Oblong (NYSE:OBLG) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Tremor International and Oblong, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tremor International	0	0	3	0	3.00
Oblong	0	0	0	0	0.00

Tremor International currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.30%. Given Tremor International’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Tremor International is more favorable than Oblong.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tremor International	-5.72%	3.11%	1.89%
Oblong	-158.75%	-89.12%	-69.64%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Tremor International and Oblong”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tremor International	$343.77 million	1.62	$22.74 million	($0.14)	-54.79
Oblong	$3.81 million	0.75	-$4.38 million	N/A	N/A

Tremor International has higher revenue and earnings than Oblong.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

7.9% of Tremor International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 2.0% of Oblong shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of Tremor International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Oblong shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility and Risk

Tremor International has a beta of 1.92, indicating that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oblong has a beta of 3.21, indicating that its share price is 221% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Tremor International beats Oblong on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Tremor International

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 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.

About Oblong

Oblong, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides multi-stream collaboration technologies and managed services for video collaboration and network applications in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Collaboration Products and Managed Services. Its flagship product is Mezzanine that enables visual collaboration across multi-users, multi-screens, multi-devices, and multi-locations for video telepresence, laptop and application sharing, and whiteboard sharing and slides applications. The company also provides managed videoconferencing services; and remote service management, which offers an overlay to enterprise information technology and channel partner support organizations, as well as support and management services for customer video environments. In addition, it provides network solutions, including Cloud Connect: Video that allows its customers to outsource the management of their video traffic to them and provides the customer's office locations with a secure, dedicated video network connection to the Oblong Cloud for video communications; Cloud Connect: Converge, which offers customized multiprotocol label switching solutions; and Cloud Connect: Cross Connect that allows the customer to leverage existing carrier for the extension of a Layer 2 private line to its data center. The company serves a range of industries comprising aerospace, consulting, executive search, broadcast media, legal, insurance, technology, financial services, education, healthcare, real estate, retail, construction, hospitality, and others, as well as government sector. Oblong, Inc. is based in Denver, Colorado.