Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) and Qunar Cayman Islands (NASDAQ:QUNR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Shutterstock and Qunar Cayman Islands, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Shutterstock | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Qunar Cayman Islands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.00 |
Shutterstock currently has a consensus target price of $42.40, suggesting a potential upside of 25.85%. Qunar Cayman Islands has a consensus target price of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 67.71%. Given Qunar Cayman Islands’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Qunar Cayman Islands is more favorable than Shutterstock.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
62.0% of Shutterstock shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.9% of Qunar Cayman Islands shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.3% of Shutterstock shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Risk & Volatility
Shutterstock has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qunar Cayman Islands has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Shutterstock and Qunar Cayman Islands’ top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | EBITDA | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Shutterstock | $517.47 million | 2.25 | $57.99 million | $0.81 | 41.59 |
| Qunar Cayman Islands | N/A | N/A | N/A | ($8.43) | -3.61 |
Shutterstock has higher revenue and earnings than Qunar Cayman Islands. Qunar Cayman Islands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shutterstock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Shutterstock and Qunar Cayman Islands’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Shutterstock | 5.59% | 11.08% | 6.34% |
| Qunar Cayman Islands | -67.87% | -291.65% | -30.15% |
Summary
Shutterstock beats Qunar Cayman Islands on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Shutterstock
Shutterstock, Inc. (Shutterstock) is a global technology company that operates a two-sided marketplace for professionals to license content. The Company’s library of content includes digital imagery, which consists of licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations and video clips that customers use in their visual communications, such as Websites, digital and print marketing materials, corporate communications, books, publications and video content, and commercial music, which consists of music tracks and sound effects and which is often used to complement digital imagery. It also offers digital asset management services through its cloud-based digital asset management platform (webdam). Its global marketplace brings together users and contributors of content by providing a collection of content its customers can pay to license and incorporate into their work and by compensating contributors as their content is licensed to customers.
About Qunar Cayman Islands
Qunar Cayman Islands Limited (Qunar) is engaged in offering mobile and online commerce platform for travel in China. The Company offers a range of travel products, including flights, hotels, vacations packages, attraction tickets and other travel related offerings. The Company offers Qunar Travel, which is a mobile application that enables its users to search for and purchase travel products. The Company’s software as a service (SaaS) system provides an online presence for over 360,000 travel service providers. Its search engine provides real-time travel products information directly sourced from travel service providers and through its SaaS platform. The Company’s main lines of business include flight tickets, hotels, vacation packages and attraction tickets. It offers display advertising, train tickets, car services, tour guides and other services. Its system provides instant confirmation of booking, rescheduling and cancellation for its flight ticket transactions.
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