Analyzing XIAO-I (NASDAQ:AIXI) & ECARX (NASDAQ:ECX)

XIAO-I (NASDAQ:AIXI) and ECARX (NASDAQ:ECX) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

4.0% of XIAO-I shares are held by institutional investors. 20.0% of ECARX 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 XIAO-I and ECARX”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
XIAO-I	$48.88 million	0.06	-$14.51 million	N/A	N/A
ECARX	$761.90 million	0.92	-$127.73 million	($0.22)	-8.59

XIAO-I has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ECARX.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for XIAO-I and ECARX, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
XIAO-I	1	0	0	0	1.00
ECARX	1	0	1	0	2.00

ECARX has a consensus price target of $3.20, indicating a potential upside of 69.31%. Given ECARX’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ECARX is more favorable than XIAO-I.

Volatility and Risk

XIAO-I has a beta of 2.23, suggesting that its stock price is 123% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECARX has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
XIAO-I	N/A	N/A	N/A
ECARX	-9.05%	N/A	-13.94%

Summary

ECARX beats XIAO-I on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About ECARX

ECARX Holdings Inc. develops a full stack automotive computing platform to shape the interaction between people and cars by rapidly advancing the technology by smart mobility worldwide. It offers system on chips, central computing platforms, operating systems, and software. Its core products include infotainment head units, digital cockpits, vehicle chip-set solutions, core operating system, and integrated software stack. The company has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Black Sesame Technologies. The company is based in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.