Reviewing Thryv (NASDAQ:THRY) & SAP (NYSE:SAP)

Thryv (NASDAQ:THRY) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.

Volatility and Risk

Thryv has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SAP has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

96.4% of Thryv shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Thryv shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of SAP shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Thryv and SAP’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Thryv	-2.27%	-7.36%	-2.36%
SAP	20.88%	17.07%	10.61%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Thryv and SAP, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Thryv	1	4	2	0	2.14
SAP	0	8	13	1	2.68

Thryv presently has a consensus price target of $8.50, suggesting a potential upside of 374.86%. SAP has a consensus price target of $255.67, suggesting a potential upside of 23.88%. Given Thryv’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Thryv is more favorable than SAP.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Thryv and SAP”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Thryv	$785.02 million	0.10	$310,000.00	($0.37)	-4.84
SAP	$41.63 billion	6.09	$8.10 billion	$7.96	25.93

SAP has higher revenue and earnings than Thryv. Thryv is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SAP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

SAP beats Thryv on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Thryv

Thryv Holdings, Inc. provides digital marketing solutions and cloud-based tools to the small-to-medium sized businesses in the United States. It operates through four segments: Thryv U.S. Marketing Services, Thryv U.S. SaaS, Thryv International Marketing Services, and Thryv International SaaS. The company provides print yellow pages, internet yellow pages, and search engine marketing; and other digital media solutions, such as online display and social advertising, online presence and video, and search engine optimization tools. It also offers command center that enables SMBs to centralize all their communication through a modular, expandable, and customizable platform; and business center, a SMB end-to-end customer experience platform, which offers customer relationship management, appointment scheduling, estimate and invoice creation, payments, document management, social media content, and online review management. In addition, the company provides marketing center, a marketing and advertising platform for AutoID, enhanced online presence, omni-channel paid campaigns, and marketing tools; Thryv Add-ons provides AI-assisted website development, SEO tools, google business profile optimization, and Hub by Thryv; and ThryvPay, a payment solution that allows users to get paid via credit card and ACH. The company was formerly known as Dex Media Holdings, Inc. Thryv Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in DFW Airport, Texas.

About SAP

SAP SE, together with its subsidiaries, provides applications, technology, and services worldwide. It offers SAP S/4HANA that provides software capabilities for finance, risk and project management, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain and asset management, and research and development; SAP SuccessFactors solutions for human resources, including HR and payroll, talent and employee experience management, and people and workforce analytics; and spend management solutions that covers direct and indirect spend, travel and expense, and external workforce management. The company also provides SAP customer experience solutions; SAP Business Technology platform that enables customers and partners to build, integrate, and automate applications; and SAP Business Network, a business-to-business collaboration platform that helps digitalize key business processes across the supply chain and enables communication between trading partners. In addition, it offers SAP Signavio to help customers to discover, analyze, and understand their business process operations; SAP's industry cloud solutions that provides modular solutions addressing industry-specific functions; Taulia solutions for working capital management to help enable customers mitigate the effects of inflation by providing visibility into working capital and access to liquidity; and sustainability solutions and services. SAP SE was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.