UiPath (NYSE:PATH) and LeddarTech (NASDAQ:LDTC) Head-To-Head Survey

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) and LeddarTech (NASDAQ:LDTC) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and risk.

Profitability

This table compares UiPath and LeddarTech’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
UiPath	-6.49%	-4.14%	-2.82%
LeddarTech	-3,899.24%	N/A	-95.37%

Risk & Volatility

UiPath has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LeddarTech has a beta of -1.75, meaning that its share price is 275% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

62.5% of UiPath shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.6% of LeddarTech shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.4% of UiPath shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for UiPath and LeddarTech, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
UiPath	1	16	2	0	2.05
LeddarTech	0	1	1	0	2.50

UiPath currently has a consensus target price of $17.44, indicating a potential upside of 29.84%. LeddarTech has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential upside of 333.53%. Given LeddarTech’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LeddarTech is more favorable than UiPath.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares UiPath and LeddarTech”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
UiPath	$1.31 billion	5.64	-$89.88 million	($0.16)	-83.97
LeddarTech	$350,000.00	56.88	-$121.92 million	($3.23)	-0.21

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

Summary

UiPath beats LeddarTech on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About UiPath

UiPath Inc. provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers a suite of interrelated software to build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automation within the organization. Its platform's embedded AI, ML, and NLP capabilities improve decisioning and information processing; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; multi-tenant platform enterprise deployment with security and governance and Automation Cloud, which enables customers to begin automating without the need to provision infrastructure, install applications, or perform additional configurations; intuitive interface and low-code, drag-and-drop functionality; signed to enable people and automations to work together; and tracks, measures, and forecasts the performance of automations, enables customers to gain powerful insights and generate key performance indicators with actionable metric. It serves banking and financial services, healthcare, insurance, public sectors, manufacturing, retail, and telecom industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

About LeddarTech

LeddarTech Holdings Inc. provides AI-based fusion and perception software solutions for advanced driver assistance solutions and autonomous driving applications in Canada. It offers LeddarVision, a raw sensor fusion and perception platform for automotive and off-road industrial vehicles. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Quebec City, Canada.