OLO (OLO) Competitors

MARA (NASDAQ:MARA) and OLO (NYSE:OLO) are both business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of MARA or OLO?

44.5% of MARA shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.4% of OLO shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of MARA shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 39.3% of OLO shares are held by company 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in MARA or OLO?

MARA received 275 more outperform votes than OLO when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.73% of users gave MARA an outperform vote while only 45.45% of users gave OLO an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
MARA	Outperform Votes 310 53.73%	Underperform Votes 267 46.27%
OLO	Outperform Votes 35 45.45%	Underperform Votes 42 54.55%

Do analysts rate MARA or OLO?

MARA currently has a consensus price target of $22.80, indicating a potential upside of 81.57%. OLO has a consensus price target of $8.67, indicating a potential upside of 41.27%. Given MARA's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe MARA is more favorable than OLO.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MARA	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.45
OLO	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Which has higher earnings & valuation, MARA or OLO?

MARA has higher revenue and earnings than OLO. OLO is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MARA, 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
MARA	$656.38M	6.62	$261.17M	$1.36	9.23
OLO	$284.94M	3.57	-$58.29M	-$0.10	-61.35

Does the media refer more to MARA or OLO?

In the previous week, MARA had 19 more articles in the media than OLO. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for MARA and 11 mentions for OLO. OLO's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat MARA's score of 0.54 indicating that OLO is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
MARA	10 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	14 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
OLO	8 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is MARA or OLO more profitable?

MARA has a net margin of 27.48% compared to OLO's net margin of -5.89%. OLO's return on equity of 0.34% beat MARA's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MARA	27.48%	-8.40%	-6.92%
OLO	-5.89%	0.34%	0.30%

Which has more volatility & risk, MARA or OLO?

MARA has a beta of 6.1, indicating that its share price is 510% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OLO has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

MARA beats OLO on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.