Creative Realities (CREX) Competitors

Creative Realities (NASDAQ:CREX) and GAN (NASDAQ:GAN) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, CREX or GAN?

Creative Realities has higher earnings, but lower revenue than GAN. GAN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Creative Realities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Creative Realities	$50.85M	0.30	-$2.94M	-$0.33	-4.39
GAN	$135.00M	0.58	-$34.44M	-$0.18	-9.56

Is CREX or GAN more profitable?

Creative Realities has a net margin of 1.38% compared to GAN's net margin of -9.84%. Creative Realities' return on equity of 2.62% beat GAN's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Creative Realities	1.38%	2.62%	1.09%
GAN	-9.84%	N/A	-15.85%

Which has more volatility & risk, CREX or GAN?

Creative Realities has a beta of 3.29, suggesting that its share price is 229% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GAN has a beta of 1.88, suggesting that its share price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CREX or GAN?

GAN received 7 more outperform votes than Creative Realities when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Creative Realities an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave GAN an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Creative Realities	Outperform Votes 4 80.00%	Underperform Votes 1 20.00%
GAN	Outperform Votes 11 33.33%	Underperform Votes 22 66.67%

Does the media favor CREX or GAN?

In the previous week, GAN had 3 more articles in the media than Creative Realities. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for GAN and 1 mentions for Creative Realities. Creative Realities' average media sentiment score of 1.90 beat GAN's score of 0.46 indicating that Creative Realities is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Creative Realities	Very Positive
GAN	Neutral

Do analysts recommend CREX or GAN?

Creative Realities currently has a consensus target price of $8.00, indicating a potential upside of 451.72%. Given Creative Realities' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Creative Realities is more favorable than GAN.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Creative Realities	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
GAN	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Do institutionals and insiders believe in CREX or GAN?

41.3% of Creative Realities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.7% of GAN shares are held by institutional investors. 14.7% of Creative Realities shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of GAN shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Creative Realities beats GAN on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.