Reviewing UiPath (NYSE:PATH) and BILL (NYSE:BILL)

BILL (NYSE:BILL) and UiPath (NYSE:PATH) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

98.0% of BILL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of UiPath shares are held by institutional investors. 13.2% of BILL shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.2% of UiPath shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BILL	-1.56%	1.70%	0.66%
UiPath	17.53%	5.69%	3.71%

Risk & Volatility

BILL has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UiPath has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BILL and UiPath”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BILL	$1.46 billion	2.59	$23.80 million	($0.24)	-159.64
UiPath	$1.61 billion	3.66	$282.33 million	$0.52	21.20

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for BILL and UiPath, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BILL	2	10	13	0	2.44
UiPath	1	14	3	0	2.11

BILL currently has a consensus price target of $56.95, suggesting a potential upside of 48.66%. UiPath has a consensus price target of $14.07, suggesting a potential upside of 27.59%. Given BILL’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe BILL is more favorable than UiPath.

Summary

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

About BILL

BILL Holdings, Inc. provides financial automation software for small and midsize businesses worldwide. The company provides software-as-a-service, cloud-based payments, and spend management products, which allow users to automate accounts payable and accounts receivable transactions, as well as enable users to connect with their suppliers and/or customers to do business, eliminate expense reports, manage cash flows, and improve office efficiency. It also offers onboarding implementation support, and ongoing support and training services. In addition, the company's artificial intelligence enabled software provides connections between suppliers and clients. It serves accounting firms, financial institutions, and software companies. The company was formerly known as Bill.com Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to BILL Holdings, Inc. in February 2023. BILL Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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.