N-able (NYSE:NABL) vs. Carbon Sciences (OTCMKTS:DLOC) Financial Review

Carbon Sciences (OTCMKTS:DLOC) and N-able (NYSE:NABL) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Carbon Sciences and N-able’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Carbon Sciences	N/A	N/A	N/A
N-able	-0.88%	3.55%	2.04%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Carbon Sciences and N-able”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Carbon Sciences	$30,000.00	N/A	-$4.72 million	($0.01)	N/A
N-able	$511.43 million	1.33	-$18.82 million	($0.02)	-180.25

Carbon Sciences has higher earnings, but lower revenue than N-able. N-able is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carbon Sciences, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Carbon Sciences has a beta of 2.4, indicating that its share price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, N-able has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Carbon Sciences and N-able, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Carbon Sciences	0	0	0	0	0.00
N-able	2	4	2	0	2.00

N-able has a consensus target price of $5.08, suggesting a potential upside of 40.92%. Given N-able’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe N-able is more favorable than Carbon Sciences.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

96.3% of N-able shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Carbon Sciences shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of N-able shares are held by company 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.

Summary

N-able beats Carbon Sciences on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Carbon Sciences

Digital Locations, Inc. operates as an aggregator, developer, and acquirer of small cell sites and cell towers for 5G services. The company intends to develop a portfolio of sites to meet the expected demand of growing 5G networks. It also provides web-based software, which provides a system and method for identifying wireless communication assets. The company was formerly known as Carbon Sciences, Inc. and changed its name to Digital Locations, Inc. in September 2017. Digital Locations, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Santa Barbara, California.

About N-able

N-able, Inc. provides cloud-based software solutions for managed service providers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company's solutions enable MSPs to support digital transformation and growth within small and medium-sized enterprises. It provides software platform designed to be an integrated, enterprise-grade solution that serves as an operating system for its MSP partners and scales as their businesses grow. In addition, the company offers remote monitoring and management solutions provide MSP partners with visibility and insights into the availability and performance of their customers' networks, infrastructure, devices and applications through a centralized dashboard; data protection as-a-service solutions, such as backup and disaster recovery for servers, virtual machines, workstations, files, data, and key cloud-based applications, as well as multi-tenant platform and secure remote delivery architecture. Further, it offers security services through patch management, endpoint security, managed detection and response, web protection, e-mail security, and archiving and vulnerability assessment solutions. Additionally, the company engages in professional services automation, automation and scripting management, password management policies and reporting, and analytics. N-able, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.