Reviewing Xiao-I (NASDAQ:AIXI) and Domo (NASDAQ:DOMO)

Domo (NASDAQ:DOMO) and Xiao-I (NASDAQ:AIXI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and earnings.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Domo and Xiao-I, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Domo	0	4	1	0	2.20
Xiao-I	0	0	0	0	0.00

Domo currently has a consensus target price of $9.60, indicating a potential upside of 9.46%. Given Domo’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Domo is more favorable than Xiao-I.

Profitability

This table compares Domo and Xiao-I’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Domo	-25.32%	N/A	-38.46%
Xiao-I	N/A	N/A	N/A

Risk and Volatility

Domo has a beta of 2.43, meaning that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Xiao-I has a beta of 3.38, meaning that its share price is 238% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

76.6% of Domo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.0% of Xiao-I shares are held by institutional investors. 14.0% of Domo shares are held by company 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.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Domo and Xiao-I”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Domo	$318.99 million	1.06	-$75.57 million	($2.16)	-4.06
Xiao-I	$65.64 million	0.78	-$26.46 million	N/A	N/A

Xiao-I has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Domo.

Summary

Domo beats Xiao-I on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Domo

Domo, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a cloud-based business intelligence platform in North America, Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan. Its platform digitally connects from the chief executive officer to the frontline employee with the various people, data, and systems in an organization, as well as giving them access to real-time data and insights, and allowing them to manage business via various browsers and visualization engines accessible across laptops, TV screens, monitors, tablets, and smartphones. The company was formerly known as Domo Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Domo, Inc. in December 2011. Domo, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in American Fork, Utah.

About Xiao-I

Xiao-I Corporation, through its subsidiary, Shanghai Xiao-i Robot Technology Co., Ltd., provides software services in the People’s Republic of China. It offers conversational AI platform that uses deep learning, data enhancement, active learning technologies for dialog management, context processing mechanisms, and driven by a learning system; knowledge fusion platform which integrates Q&A, documents, multimedia, information forms, business processes, knowledge graphs, and multimodal; intelligence voice platform to enhance intelligent speech solutions, realizing the macro processes of intelligent IVP, intelligent outbound calls, speech analysis, agent assistance, and human-computer interaction; and hyperautomation platform that integrates technologies, such as OCR, NLP, and visualized data mining and analysis that enables users to realize business and process automation. The company also provides data intelligence platform which integrates data assets, manages the entire life cycle of data that realizes the entire cycles of data integration, processing, transformation, analysis, and mining; cloud platform that integrates NLP, speech recognition, image recognition, and data analysis capabilities; and intelligent construction support platform which offers parsing, reconstruction, visualization, and multi-dimensional analysis of construction drawings. In addition, it offers vision analysis platform that uses various computer vision-related technologies to apply OCR, detection, video, and image analysis; intelligent hardware support platform which provides the framework of signal collection, processing, analysis, prediction, and others; and metaverse platform that develops virtual digital human. It serves its products to large and medium-sized contact centers, financial institutions, communication operators, government services, industrial manufacturing, medical care, and others. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Shanghai, China.