XBP Europe (NASDAQ:XBP – Get Free Report) and Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR – Get Free Report) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Profitability
This table compares XBP Europe and Radware’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| XBP Europe | -9.50% | N/A | -14.57% |
| Radware | 2.20% | 3.81% | 2.16% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares XBP Europe and Radware”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| XBP Europe | $142.77 million | 0.27 | -$11.05 million | N/A | N/A |
| Radware | $274.88 million | 3.36 | $6.04 million | $0.14 | 157.00 |
Risk & Volatility
XBP Europe has a beta of -0.28, suggesting that its stock price is 128% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Radware has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for XBP Europe and Radware, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| XBP Europe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Radware | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.50 |
Radware has a consensus price target of $30.00, indicating a potential upside of 36.49%. Given Radware’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Radware is more favorable than XBP Europe.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
15.7% of XBP Europe shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.1% of Radware shares are owned by institutional investors. 82.5% of XBP Europe shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of Radware shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Radware beats XBP Europe on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About XBP Europe
XBP Europe Holdings, Inc. provides bills, payments, and related solutions and services in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Bills & Payments and Technology. The Bills & Payments segment focuses on optimizing how bills and payments are processed by businesses of all sizes and industries. This segment also offers automation of accounts payable and accounts receivables processes and seeks to integrate buyers and suppliers, as well as engages in digital transformation business. The Technology segment engages in the sale of recurring software licenses and related maintenance, and hardware solutions, as well as provision of related maintenance and professional services. In addition, the company offers XBP platform that provides a secured network allowing billers, consumers, and businesses to communicate and transact; XBP Omnidirect, a cloud-based platform that provides enterprise level client communication management; and Reaktr.ai for cybersecurity, data modernization and cloud management, and generative AI. Further, it provides request to pay solutions; enterprise information management solutions; robotic process automation solutions; digital mailroom and records digitization solutions; business process management and intelligent workflow automation solutions; integrated communications solution; banking and financial industry solutions and services; cross-border payments; digitization of checks; confirmation of payee; and mortgage and loan management solutions. The company is based in Egham, the United Kingdom. XBP Europe Holdings, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Exela Technologies, Inc.
About Radware
Radware Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets cyber security and application delivery solutions for cloud, on-premises, and software defined data centers worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Radware’s Core Business and The Hawks’ Business. It offers DefensePro provides automated DDoS protection; Radware Kubernetes, a web application firewall solution; and Cyber Controller, a unified solution for management, configuration, and attack lifecycle. The company also provides Alteon, an application delivery and security solution that manages application traffic across cloud and data center locations for optimizing availability and performance; and LinkProof NG, a multi-homing and enterprise gateway solution. In addition, it offers ERT Security Updates Subscription that provides protection from network elements, hosts, and applications; ERT Active Attackers Feed, a threat intelligence feed to protect against DDoS threats; ERT Protection Packages; Alteon Global Elastic License, a purchasing and deployment subscription; MSSP Portal, a DDoS detection and mitigation service portal; Location-based Mitigation that enables network traffic based on the geolocation mapping of IP subnets; and Cloud DDoS Protection Service, which offers a range of enterprise-grade DDoS protection services in the cloud. Further, the company provides Cloud Web DDoS Protection, Cloud WAF Service, Bot Manager, Cloud-Native Protector, and Cloud Application Protection Services, as well as technical support, professional, managed, and training and certification services. It sells its products primarily to independent distributors, including value added resellers, original equipment manufacturers, and system integrators. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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