Comparing Auddia (NASDAQ:AUUD) and Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD)

Auddia (NASDAQ:AUUD) and Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Auddia and Applied Digital, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Auddia	0	0	0	0	0.00
Applied Digital	0	0	9	0	3.00

Applied Digital has a consensus target price of $12.11, indicating a potential upside of 59.57%. Given Applied Digital’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Applied Digital is more favorable than Auddia.

Risk & Volatility

Auddia has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Applied Digital has a beta of 4.78, suggesting that its share price is 378% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Auddia and Applied Digital”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Auddia	N/A	N/A	-$8.81 million	N/A	N/A
Applied Digital	$211.62 million	7.99	-$149.27 million	($1.73)	-4.39

Auddia has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Applied Digital.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

65.7% of Applied Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Auddia shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Applied Digital 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.

Profitability

This table compares Auddia and Applied Digital’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Auddia	N/A	-243.38%	-143.18%
Applied Digital	-127.86%	-117.67%	-27.84%

Summary

Applied Digital beats Auddia on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Auddia

Auddia Inc., a technology company, develops AI Platform for the audio and podcast markets. The company's flagship product is faidr, which enables consumers to listen to various AM/FM radio station with commercial breaks replaced with personalized audio content, including popular and new music, news, and weather. It also provides Vodacast mobile app, an interactive differentiated podcasting that allows podcasters to give their audiences an interactive audio experience; and Podcast Hub, a content management system. The company was formerly known as Clip Interactive, LLC and changed its name to Auddia Inc. in November 2019. Auddia Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

About Applied Digital

Applied Digital Corporation designs, develops, and operates datacenters in North America. Its datacenters provide digital infrastructure solutions to the high-performance computing industry. The company also provides artificial intelligence cloud services, high performance computing datacenter hosting, and crypto datacenter hosting services. The company was formerly known as Applied Blockchain, Inc. and changed its name to Applied Digital Corporation in November 2022. Applied Digital Corporation is based in Dallas, Texas.