Head-To-Head Review: Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER) & Sify Technologies (NASDAQ:SIFY)

Uber Technologies (NYSE:UBER) and Sify Technologies (NASDAQ:SIFY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Volatility & Risk

Uber Technologies has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sify Technologies has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Uber Technologies and Sify Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Uber Technologies	33.54%	68.17%	29.80%
Sify Technologies	-3.70%	-15.90%	-3.79%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Uber Technologies and Sify Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Uber Technologies	1	8	30	4	2.86
Sify Technologies	1	0	0	0	1.00

Uber Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $107.19, suggesting a potential upside of 37.56%. Given Uber Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Uber Technologies is more favorable than Sify Technologies.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Uber Technologies and Sify Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Uber Technologies	$43.98 billion	3.68	$9.86 billion	$7.78	10.02
Sify Technologies	$471.80 million	2.36	-$9.17 million	N/A	N/A

Uber Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Sify Technologies.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

80.2% of Uber Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.6% of Sify Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of Uber Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 77.0% of Sify Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Uber Technologies beats Sify Technologies on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Uber Technologies

Uber Technologies, Inc. develops and operates proprietary technology applications in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia excluding China and Southeast Asia. It operates through three segments: Mobility, Delivery, and Freight. The Mobility segment connects consumers with a range of transportation modalities, such as ridesharing, carsharing, micromobility, rentals, public transit, taxis, and other modalities; and offers riders in a variety of vehicle types, as well as financial partnerships products and advertising services. The Delivery segment allows to search for and discover restaurants to grocery, alcohol, convenience, and other retails; order a meal or other items; and Uber direct, a white-label Delivery-as-a-Service for retailers and restaurants, as well as advertising. The Freight segment manages transportation and logistics network, which connects shippers and carriers in digital marketplace including carriers upfronts, pricing, and shipment booking; and provides on-demand platform to automate logistics end-to-end transactions for small-and medium-sized business to global enterprises. The company was formerly known as Ubercab, Inc. and changed its name to Uber Technologies, Inc. in February 2011. Uber Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About Sify Technologies

Sify Technologies Limited offers ICT solutions and services in India and internationally. It operates through Network Centric Services, Data Center Services, and Digital Services segments. The company offers internet, internet protocol, multi-protocol label switching, virtual private network, SDWAN, managed Wi-Fi, internet of things, wholesale and retail voice, dedicated internet access, and proactive monitoring and management of the network and devices. It provides co-location services; and managed hosting services, such as storage, back-up management, performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring and management, network availability, server load balancing, managed shared firewall, web server log reporting, and remote and smart hands services. In addition, it offers managed network services; EDGE services; cloud and managed services, including infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, virtual private data center, computing services, IT platform, backup and recovery solution, and content delivery network; remote and onsite infrastructure managed services; and managed security services. Further, the company provides technology integration services; application integration services, which includes talent management, supply chain management, web portal solutions content services, portal development and maintenance, eLearning, digital signature, SAP, Microsoft, Oracle services. The company was formerly known as Sify Limited and changed its name to Sify Technologies Limited in October 2007. Sify Technologies Limited was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Chennai, India. Sify Technologies Limited is a subsidiary of Ramanand Core Investment Company Private Limited.