ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW – Get Free Report) and Kingsoft Cloud (NASDAQ:KC – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Profitability
This table compares ACI Worldwide and Kingsoft Cloud’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| ACI Worldwide | 14.04% | 21.67% | 8.45% |
| Kingsoft Cloud | -28.41% | -19.13% | -7.90% |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares ACI Worldwide and Kingsoft Cloud”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| ACI Worldwide | $1.45 billion | 3.99 | $121.51 million | $2.11 | 26.17 |
| Kingsoft Cloud | $7.28 billion | 0.31 | -$306.53 million | ($1.20) | -7.43 |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for ACI Worldwide and Kingsoft Cloud, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| ACI Worldwide | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2.50 |
| Kingsoft Cloud | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3.00 |
ACI Worldwide currently has a consensus price target of $49.50, suggesting a potential downside of 10.36%. Kingsoft Cloud has a consensus price target of $4.62, suggesting a potential downside of 48.21%. Given ACI Worldwide’s higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe ACI Worldwide is more favorable than Kingsoft Cloud.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
94.7% of ACI Worldwide shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.4% of Kingsoft Cloud shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of ACI Worldwide shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.2% of Kingsoft Cloud shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility & Risk
ACI Worldwide has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kingsoft Cloud has a beta of 2.49, indicating that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ACI Worldwide beats Kingsoft Cloud on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About ACI Worldwide
ACI Worldwide, Inc., a software company, develops, markets, installs, and supports a range of software products and solutions for facilitating digital payments in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Banks, Merchants, and Billers. The company offers ACI Acquiring, a solution to process credit, debit, and prepaid card transactions, deliver digital innovation, and fraud prevention; ACI Issuing, a digital payment issuing solution for new payment offering; and ACI Enterprise Payments Platform that provides payment processing and orchestration capabilities for digital payments. It also provides ACI Low Value Real-Time Payments, a platform for processing real-time payments; and ACI High Value Real-Time Payments, a payments engine that offers multi-bank, multi-currency, 24×7 payment processing, and SWIFT messaging. In addition, the company offers ACI Payments Orchestration Platform for optimizing payments; omni-channel payment platform; ACI Fraud Management, a real-time approach to fraud management; and ACI Speedpay, an integrated suite of digital billing, payment, disbursement, and communication services. The company offers electronic bill presentment and payment services to consumer finance, insurance, healthcare, higher education, utility, government, telecommunications, and mortgage sectors; implementation services, include product installations and configurations, and custom software modifications; and business and technical consultancy, on-site support, product education, and testing services, as well as distributes or acts as a sales agent for software developed by third parties. It markets its products under the ACI Worldwide brand. The company was formerly known as Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. and changed its name to ACI Worldwide, Inc. in July 2007. The company was founded in 1975 and is based in Elkhorn, Nebraska.
About Kingsoft Cloud
Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited provides cloud services to businesses and organizations primarily in China. The company's products portfolio includes cloud products, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS) infrastructure, platform as a service (PaaS) middleware, and software as a service (SaaS) applications that primarily consist of cloud computing, network, database, big data, security, storage, and delivery solutions. It offers research and development services, as well as enterprise digital solutions and related services. The company also provides public cloud services to customers in various verticals, including video, e-commerce, intelligent mobility, artificial intelligence, and mobile internet; and enterprise cloud services to customers in financial services, public service, and healthcare businesses. Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.
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