Head-To-Head Review: Issuer Direct (NYSE:ISDR) vs. TSS (NASDAQ:TSSI)

Risk & Volatility

Issuer Direct has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TSS has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

50.0% of Issuer Direct shares are held by institutional investors. 26.9% of Issuer Direct shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.5% of TSS shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Issuer Direct and TSS”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Issuer Direct	$33.38 million	1.02	$770,000.00	($0.35)	-25.40
TSS	$54.40 million	5.18	$70,000.00	$0.18	65.50

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

Profitability

This table compares Issuer Direct and TSS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Issuer Direct	-4.54%	5.03%	2.80%
TSS	3.59%	87.89%	11.84%

Summary

TSS beats Issuer Direct on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Issuer Direct

Issuer Direct Corporation operates as a communications and compliance company, provides solutions for both public relations and investor relations professionals in the United States and internationally. The company provides press release distribution, media databases, media monitoring, and newsrooms through media advantage platform; ACCESSWIRE, a news dissemination and media outreach service; and Webcaster Platform, a cloud-based webcast, webinar, and virtual meeting platform that delivers live and on-demand streaming of events to audiences of various sizes, as well as allows customers to create, produce, and deliver events. It also offers professional conference and events software, a mobile app that offers organizers, issuers, and investors to register, request, and approve one-on-one meetings, as well as manage schedules, perform event promotion and sponsorship, print attendee badges, and manage lodging; and investor relations content network, a series of data feeds, which include news feeds, stock feeds, fundamentals, regulatory filings, corporate governance, and other components. In addition, the company provides whistleblower hotline, a system that delivers secure notifications and basic incident workflow management processes that align with a company’s corporate governance whistleblower policy; stock transfer module, which offers access to real-time information about their shareholders, stock ledgers, and reports, as well as issues new shares; and proxy module, a real-time voting platform for customers and their shareholders of record. It serves public and private companies, mutual funds, law firms, brokerage firms, investment banks, individuals, and other institutions. The company was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

About TSS

TSS, Inc. offers planning, design, engineering, construction management, commissioning and maintenance services. It provides these services primarily for specialized facilities such as data centers, communications rooms, call centers, laboratories, trading floors, network operations centers, medical facilities and similar environments. TSS Inc., formerly known as Fortress International Group, Inc., is based in Columbia, United States.