Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ:JG) & BOX (NYSE:BOX) Head to Head Review

Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ:JG) and BOX (NYSE:BOX) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Aurora Mobile and BOX, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aurora Mobile	0	1	0	0	2.00
BOX	2	4	4	0	2.20

BOX has a consensus price target of $35.57, suggesting a potential upside of 44.16%. Given BOX’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe BOX is more favorable than Aurora Mobile.

Risk and Volatility

Aurora Mobile has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BOX has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Aurora Mobile and BOX”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aurora Mobile	$53.60 million	0.70	$60,000.00	$0.03	209.17
BOX	$1.18 billion	2.90	$115.38 million	$0.59	41.82

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

Profitability

This table compares Aurora Mobile and BOX’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aurora Mobile	0.14%	0.53%	0.13%
BOX	9.80%	-23.61%	4.17%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

85.5% of Aurora Mobile shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.7% of BOX shares are held by institutional investors. 31.2% of Aurora Mobile shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.9% of BOX shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

BOX beats Aurora Mobile on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Aurora Mobile

Aurora Mobile Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of developer services in China. The company provides push notification, instant messaging, analytics, sharing and short message service, one-click verification, and other services. The company offers real-time market intelligence solutions, such as product iApp, which provides analysis and statistical results on the usage and trends of mobile apps to investment funds and corporations. It also provides financial risk management solutions to assist financial institutions, licensed lenders, and credit card companies in making informed lending and credit decisions; and location-based intelligence services. In addition, the company offers application programming interfaces that create connectivity and automate the process of message exchange between the mobile apps and its backend network; an interactive web-based service dashboard that allows app developers to utilize and monitor its services through controls on an ongoing basis; and value added services, such as Advertisement SAAS, a data management platform service, which provides tagged and de-identified population data package; JG Alliance, an integrated marketing campaign services to advertising customers; and AD Mediation Platform to help mobile app developers access other mainstream advertising platforms. It primarily serves mobile app developers in a range of industries, such as media, entertainment, gaming, financial services, tourism, ecommerce, education, and healthcare. Aurora Mobile Limited was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.

About BOX

Box, Inc. engages in the provision of an enterprise content platform that enables organizations to securely manage enterprise content while allowing easy, secure access and sharing of this content from anywhere, on any device. Its products include cloud content management, IT and admin controls, Box Governance, Box Zones, Box Relay, Box Shuttle, and Box KeySafe. The company was founded by Aaron Levie, Dylan Smith, Jeff Queisser, and Sam Ghods in March 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.