Critical Survey: Fastly (NASDAQ:FSLY) versus Society Pass (NASDAQ:SOPA)

Society Pass (NASDAQ:SOPA) and Fastly (NASDAQ:FSLY) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Society Pass and Fastly”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Society Pass	$7.23 million	0.08	-$10.23 million	($2.43)	-0.03
Fastly	$624.02 million	6.37	-$121.68 million	($0.53)	-47.09

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

3.1% of Society Pass shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.7% of Fastly shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Society Pass shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Fastly shares are held 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.

Volatility and Risk

Society Pass has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fastly has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Society Pass and Fastly, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Society Pass	1	1	1	1	2.50
Fastly	2	6	6	1	2.40

Society Pass presently has a consensus target price of $22.50, indicating a potential upside of 29,505.26%. Fastly has a consensus target price of $26.73, indicating a potential upside of 7.08%. Given Society Pass’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Society Pass is more favorable than Fastly.

Profitability

This table compares Society Pass and Fastly’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Society Pass	-145.99%	-343.41%	-39.70%
Fastly	-11.80%	-6.31%	-4.04%

Summary

Fastly beats Society Pass on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Society Pass

Society Pass Incorporated acquires and operates fintech and e-commerce platforms and mobile applications for consumers and merchants in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, the United States, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Thailand. It operates through Online Grocery and Food and Groceries Deliveries, Digital marketing, Online ticketing and reservation, Telecommunications Reseller, e-Commerce, and Merchant Point of Sale segments. The company operates Leflair, an online lifestyle platform that offers services and products, such as fashion and accessories, beauty and personal care, and home and lifestyle; an online food delivery service under the Handycart brand name; and an online grocery delivery service under the Pushkart brand name. It also sells hardware and software to merchant; local mobile phone and global internet data plans; and domestic and overseas air ticket, and global hotel reservations, as well as offers digital marketing services. The company was formerly known as Food Society, Inc. and changed its name to Society Pass Incorporated in October 2018. Society Pass Incorporated was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.

About Fastly

Fastly, Inc. operates an edge cloud platform for processing, serving, and securing its customer's applications in the United States, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and internationally. The edge cloud is a category of Infrastructure as a Service that enables developers to build, secure, and deliver digital experiences at the edge of the internet. The company offers network services to speed up and optimize the delivery of web and application traffic; device detection and geolocation; content delivery network, such as dynamic site acceleration, origin shield, instant purge, surrogate keys, programmatic control, content compression, reliability features, fanout, domainr, privacy, and modern protocols and performance services; and video/ streaming solutions and services, including live streaming, video on demand, and media shield. It also provides security solutions, such as DDoS protection, next-gen WAF, bot management, API and ATO protection, advanced rate limiting, and compliance services; load balancing; image optimization; transport layer security (TLS), platform TLS, and certainly; and origin connect. It serves customers operating in digital publishing, media and entertainment, technology, online education, travel and hospitality, and financial services industries. The company was formerly known as SkyCache, Inc. and changed its name to Fastly, Inc. in May 2012. Fastly, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.