Information Analysis (OTCMKTS:IAIC – Get Rating) and Certara (NASDAQ:CERT – Get Rating) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Volatility and Risk
Information Analysis has a beta of 3.25, suggesting that its share price is 225% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Certara has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Information Analysis and Certara’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Information Analysis | 3.72% | 18.48% | 9.33% |
| Certara | 4.39% | 5.97% | 4.15% |
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Information Analysis | $13.90 million | 0.00 | $410,000.00 | $0.04 | N/A |
| Certara | $335.64 million | 10.99 | $14.73 million | $0.09 | 256.81 |
Certara has higher revenue and earnings than Information Analysis. Information Analysis is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Certara, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Information Analysis and Certara, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Information Analysis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Certara | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2.63 |
Certara has a consensus price target of $24.25, indicating a potential upside of 4.93%.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
75.5% of Certara shares are held by institutional investors. 23.8% of Information Analysis shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Certara shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Certara beats Information Analysis on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Information Analysis
Information Analysis, Inc. provides information technology services. The firm engages in the business of modernizing client information systems, developing and maintaining information technology systems, and performing consulting services to government and commercial organizations. It specializes in legacy systems modernization, ebusiness solutions, enterprise portals, system migration and re-hosting services, and enterprise application integration. The company was founded by Sandor Rosenberg in 1979 and is headquartered in Fairfax, VA.
About Certara
Certara, Inc. provides software products and technology-enabled services to customers for biosimulation in drug discovery, preclinical and clinical research, regulatory submissions, and market access. It offers medicines to patients using biosimulation software, technology, and services to transform drug discovery and development. The company also provides related technology-enabled services to guide its customers' new drugs through the regulatory submission process and into the market. Its technology-enabled services include mechanistic biosimulation, empirical biosimulation, drug development and regulatory strategy, clinical pharmacology, model-based meta-analysis, regulatory writing and medical communications, regulatory operations, and market access. Further, company offers software, comprising mechanistic biosimulation platform, empirical PK/PD biosimulation platform, data standardization and compliance software, scientific informatics platform, clinical outcomes databases for biosimulation, authoring and management of regulatory submissions platform, and market access communication platform. The company serves biopharmaceutical companies, and academic and government institutions. It has operations in the United States, Canada, Spain, Luxembourg, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Japan, the Philippines, India, Australia, and China. Certara Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.
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