Financial Review: Robot Consulting (NASDAQ:LAWR) versus Bigcommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC)

Robot Consulting (NASDAQ:LAWR) and Bigcommerce (NASDAQ:BIGC) are both small-cap services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Robot Consulting and Bigcommerce”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Robot Consulting	$4.46 million	35.49	-$3.53 million	N/A	N/A
Bigcommerce	$334.94 million	0.71	-$17.62 million	($0.22)	-13.50

Robot Consulting has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bigcommerce.

Profitability

This table compares Robot Consulting and Bigcommerce’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Robot Consulting	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bigcommerce	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Robot Consulting and Bigcommerce, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Robot Consulting	1	0	0	0	1.00
Bigcommerce	0	0	1	0	3.00

Bigcommerce has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 270.37%. Given Bigcommerce’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bigcommerce is more favorable than Robot Consulting.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

79.2% of Bigcommerce shares are held by institutional investors. 5.0% of Bigcommerce shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Bigcommerce beats Robot Consulting on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Robot Consulting

Robot Consulting Co. Ltd. is a platform service provider focusing on human resource solutions with an intention to expand into legal technology and the metaverse. The Company’s major product, Labor Robot, is a cloud-based human resource management system which helps users track employee attendance, manage sales orders and journalize accounting items. Robot Consulting Co. Ltd. is based in Tokyo, Japan.

About Bigcommerce

BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. operates a software-as-a-service platform for small businesses, mid-markets, and large enterprises in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company’s platform provides various services for launching and scaling e-commerce operation, including store design, catalog management, hosting, checkout, order management, reporting, and pre-integrations. As of December 31, 2021, it served approximately 60,000 online stores across industries. BigCommerce Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.