Zapata Quantum (OTCMKTS:ZPTA – Get Free Report) and Five9 (NASDAQ:FIVN – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Risk and Volatility
Zapata Quantum has a beta of 21.2, indicating that its share price is 2,020% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Five9 has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
51.2% of Zapata Quantum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of Five9 shares are owned by institutional investors. 39.3% of Zapata Quantum shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Five9 shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Zapata Quantum and Five9″s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Zapata Quantum | $3.88 million | 35.73 | $9.34 million | ($0.02) | -37.00 |
| Five9 | $1.15 billion | 1.87 | $39.42 million | $0.67 | 41.97 |
Five9 has higher revenue and earnings than Zapata Quantum. Zapata Quantum is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Five9, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Zapata Quantum and Five9, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Zapata Quantum | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Five9 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 2.57 |
Zapata Quantum presently has a consensus target price of $1.00, indicating a potential upside of 35.14%. Five9 has a consensus target price of $33.94, indicating a potential upside of 20.70%. Given Zapata Quantum’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Zapata Quantum is more favorable than Five9.
Profitability
This table compares Zapata Quantum and Five9’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Zapata Quantum | N/A | -7.23% | -3.10% |
| Five9 | 4.94% | 12.92% | 5.65% |
Summary
Five9 beats Zapata Quantum on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Zapata Quantum
Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. operates as an industrial generative artificial intelligence (AI) software company in the United States. The company offers subscription-based solutions that combine software and services to develop generative AI applications, as well as accompanying services to solve complex industrial problems. It also provides Zapata AI Sense, a suite of algorithms and complex mathematical models to enhance analytics and other data-driven applications; Zapata AI Prose, a set of generative AI solutions based on large language models for generic chatbot applications; and Orquestra, an industrial generative AI application development platform, which provides sense and prose. It serves enterprise organizations. Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
About Five9
Five9, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides intelligent cloud software for contact centers in the United States, India, and internationally. It offers a virtual contact center cloud platform that delivers a suite of applications, which enables the breadth of contact center-related customer service, sales, and marketing functions. The company’s platform comprises of including interactive virtual agent, agent assist, workflow automation, workforce engagement management, AI insights, and AI summaries that allows to manage and optimize customer interactions across voice, chat, email, web, social media, and mobile channels directly or through its application programming interfaces. It also matches each customer interaction with an agent resource and delivers customer data to the agent in real-time through integrations with adjacent enterprise applications, such as CRM software, to optimize the customer experience and enhance agent productivity. The company serves customers in various industries, such as banking and financial services, business process outsourcers, retail, healthcare, technology, and education. Five9, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in San Ramon, California.
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