Head-To-Head Analysis: Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) vs. NCC Group (OTCMKTS:NCCGF)

NCC Group (OTCMKTS:NCCGF) and Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for NCC Group and Palantir Technologies, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NCC Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Palantir Technologies	5	13	4	0	1.95

Palantir Technologies has a consensus price target of $74.45, indicating a potential downside of 17.36%. Given Palantir Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Palantir Technologies is more favorable than NCC Group.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

45.7% of Palantir Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.9% of Palantir Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NCC Group and Palantir Technologies”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NCC Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Palantir Technologies	$2.87 billion	73.74	$462.19 million	$0.19	474.16

Palantir Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than NCC Group.

Volatility and Risk

NCC Group has a beta of -0.12, suggesting that its share price is 112% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Palantir Technologies has a beta of 2.81, suggesting that its share price is 181% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares NCC Group and Palantir Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NCC Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Palantir Technologies	16.13%	6.85%	5.48%

Summary

Palantir Technologies beats NCC Group on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NCC Group

NCC Group plc engages in the cyber and software resilience business in the United Kingdom, the Asian-Pacific, North America, and Europe. The company operates in two segments, Cyber Security and Software Resilience. It offers assessment and advisory services, which include risk management, supply chain risk, cloud and infrastructure, application and security software, mobile, managed vulnerability scanning, hardware and embedded systems, and cryptography, as well as calibrator and cyber security review solutions. The company also provides detection and response services, including managed detection and response, incident response, and threat intelligence; compliance services, such as data privacy, government security, and payments; and remediation and big bounty services. In addition, it provides software resilience services, such as cloud software escrow solutions, on-premises software escrow agreements, on-premises software escrow verification, virtual and physical escrow vaults, software security testing, and software risk assessment tools, as well as offers training services to developers and other security teams. The company serves customers in various industries that include finance and professional, transport and manufacturing, public, retail, and energy and utilities, as well as technology, media, telecommunications sectors. NCC Group plc was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Manchester, the United Kingdom.

About Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies, Inc. engages in the business of building and deploying software platforms that serve as the central operating systems for its customers. It operates under the Commercial and Government segments. The Commercial segment focuses on customers working in non-government industries. The Government segment is involved in providing services to customers that are the United States government and non-United States government agencies. The company was founded by Alexander Ceadmon Karp, Peter Andreas Thiel, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan Dale Gettings in 2003 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.