Reviewing Phunware (NASDAQ:PHUN) & NCR Voyix (NYSE:VYX)

NCR Voyix (NYSE:VYX) and Phunware (NASDAQ:PHUN) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

97.0% of NCR Voyix shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.6% of Phunware shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of NCR Voyix shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Phunware shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for NCR Voyix and Phunware, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NCR Voyix	0	3	3	0	2.50
Phunware	1	1	0	0	1.50

NCR Voyix currently has a consensus target price of $12.20, suggesting a potential upside of 50.25%. Phunware has a consensus target price of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.90%. Given NCR Voyix’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe NCR Voyix is more favorable than Phunware.

Risk & Volatility

NCR Voyix has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Phunware has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NCR Voyix and Phunware”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NCR Voyix	$2.69 billion	0.42	$62.00 million	$0.40	20.30
Phunware	$2.55 million	15.45	-$11.40 million	($0.65)	-2.96

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

Profitability

This table compares NCR Voyix and Phunware’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NCR Voyix	2.53%	11.23%	2.61%
Phunware	-471.72%	-13.79%	-12.37%

Summary

NCR Voyix beats Phunware on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NCR Voyix

NCR Voyix Corporation provides various software and services in the United States, the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through three segments: Retail; Restaurants; and Digital Banking. It offers software, services, and hardware; and digital banking solutions for financial institution’s consumer and business customers. The company provides solutions for banking channel services, transaction processing, imaging, and branch services. In addition, it offers solutions for retail industry comprising comprehensive API-point of sale (POS) retail software platforms and applications, hardware terminals and peripherals, payment processing solutions, and consumer engagement solutions, as well as self-service kiosks, which consists of self-checkout (SCO). Further, the company provides technology solutions to customers in the restaurant industry comprising table-service, quick-service, and fast casual restaurants. Additionally, it offers cloud-based and platform-enabled software applications for point-of-sale, back office, payment processing, kitchen production, restaurant management, eCommerce, mobile ordering, and consumer marketing and loyalty; and restaurant -oriented hardware products, such as POS terminals, kitchen display systems, handheld devices, printers, and peripherals. It also offers solutions for customer account opening and onboarding across digital, branch, and call center channels. The company serves grocery stores, drug stores, and box retailers; and quick service, table service and fast casual restaurants of all sizes, small-and-medium sized businesses to large multi-national, and enterprise clients. The company was formerly known as NCR Corporation and changed its name to NCR Voyix Corporation in October 2023. NCR Voyix Corporation was incorporated in 1884 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

About Phunware

Phunware, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated software platform that equips companies with the products, solutions, and services to engage, manage, and monetize their mobile application portfolios in the United States and internationally. The company's products and services include mobile software and application transaction solutions comprise integration of software development kit (SDK) licenses, which consists of analytics that offers data related to application use and engagement; content management that allows application administrators to create and manage app content in a cloud-based portal; alerts, notifications, and messaging, which enables brands to send messages; marketing automation that enables location-triggered messages and workflow; advertising; and location-based services, such as mapping, navigation, wayfinding, workflow, asset management, and policy enforcement. It is also involved in the integration of its SDK licenses into existing applications maintained by its customers, as well as custom application development and support services; and provision of cloud-based vertical solutions for healthcare, retail, sports, aviation, real estate, hospitality, education, and other applications, as well as application transactions, including re-occurring and one-time transactional media purchases for application discovery, user acquisition and audience building, audience engagement, and audience monetization. Phunware, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.