Comparing Mawson Infrastructure Group (NASDAQ:MIGI) and Telos (NASDAQ:TLS)

Mawson Infrastructure Group (NASDAQ:MIGI) and Telos (NASDAQ:TLS) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

Volatility and Risk

Mawson Infrastructure Group has a beta of 4.62, meaning that its share price is 362% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Telos has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Mawson Infrastructure Group and Telos”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mawson Infrastructure Group	$59.26 million	0.09	-$46.13 million	($12.60)	-0.38
Telos	$144.40 million	2.84	-$52.52 million	($0.41)	-13.56

Mawson Infrastructure Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Telos. Telos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mawson Infrastructure Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Mawson Infrastructure Group and Telos’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mawson Infrastructure Group	-24.28%	N/A	-22.36%
Telos	-20.47%	-26.12%	-19.88%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

6.9% of Mawson Infrastructure Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.1% of Telos shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Mawson Infrastructure Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.9% of Telos shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Mawson Infrastructure Group and Telos, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mawson Infrastructure Group	1	2	0	0	1.67
Telos	1	3	2	0	2.17

Telos has a consensus target price of $7.75, indicating a potential upside of 39.39%. Given Telos’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Telos is more favorable than Mawson Infrastructure Group.

Summary

Telos beats Mawson Infrastructure Group on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Mawson Infrastructure Group

Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. develops and operates digital infrastructure for digital currency on the bitcoin blockchain network in the United States. It engages in digital currency or bitcoin self-mining, customer co-location and related services, and energy markets, as well as operates data center facilities. The company is based in Midland, Pennsylvania.

About Telos

Telos Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides cyber, cloud, and enterprise security solutions worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Security Solutions and Secure Networks. It provides Xacta, a platform for enterprise cyber risk management and security compliance automation; and consulting, assessment and compliance, engineering and evaluation, operations, and penetration testing services. The company also offers Telos Automated Message Handling System, a web-based organizational message distribution and management for mission-critical communications used by military field operatives; and Telos Advanced Cyber Analytics solution, which is a threat feed source of global Internet Protocol addresses known to engage in potentially malicious activity, including mass scanning and generic opportunistic attacks; and Telos Ghost, a solution to eliminate cyberattack surfaces by obfuscating and encrypting data, masking user identity and location, and hiding network resources, as well as provides security and privacy for intelligence gathering, cyber threat protection, securing critical infrastructure, and protecting communications and applications. In addition, the company provides IDTrust360, an enterprise digital trusted identity risk platform for extending flexible hybrid cloud identity services; and ONYX, a touchless fingerprint biometric solution for mobile devices. Further, it offers secure mobility solutions that enable remote work and minimize operational and security concerns across and beyond the enterprise; and network management and defense services for operating, administrating, and defending complex enterprise networks and services for defensive cyber operations. It serves the United States federal government, large commercial businesses, state and local governments, and international customers. Telos Corporation was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia.