Intchains Group (NASDAQ:ICG – Get Free Report) and GDS (NASDAQ:GDS – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.
Profitability
This table compares Intchains Group and GDS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Intchains Group | -24.68% | -5.29% | -5.08% |
| GDS | 23.83% | 15.62% | 5.16% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Intchains Group and GDS, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Intchains Group | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| GDS | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3.00 |
Risk & Volatility
Intchains Group has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GDS has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its share price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Intchains Group and GDS”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Intchains Group | $31.58 million | 1.60 | -$6.80 million | ($0.12) | -6.92 |
| GDS | $1.63 billion | 3.93 | $132.10 million | $1.57 | 20.43 |
GDS has higher revenue and earnings than Intchains Group. Intchains Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GDS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
33.7% of GDS shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of GDS shares are owned 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
GDS beats Intchains Group on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Intchains Group
Intchains Group Limited designs and sells application-specific integrated circuit chips for blockchain applications in the People's Republic of China. The company also offers ancillary software, hardware, and other products. It serves distributors. Intchains Group Limited was founded in 2017 and is based in Pudong, China.
About GDS
GDS Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, develops and operates data centers in the People's Republic of China. The company provides colocation services comprising critical facilities space, customer-available power, racks, and cooling; managed hosting services, including business continuity and disaster recovery, network management, data storage, system security, operating system, database, and server middleware services; managed cloud services; and consulting services. It serves cloud service providers, large Internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications and IT service providers, and large domestic private sector and multinational corporations. GDS Holdings Limited was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.
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