RingCentral (NYSE:RNG) & Benchmark Energy (OTCMKTS:BMRK) Head to Head Survey

RingCentral (NYSE:RNG) and Benchmark Energy (OTCMKTS:BMRK) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

98.6% of RingCentral shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.8% of RingCentral shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for RingCentral and Benchmark Energy, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
RingCentral	0	10	8	1	2.53
Benchmark Energy	0	0	0	0	N/A

RingCentral currently has a consensus price target of $38.94, suggesting a potential upside of 11.56%. Given RingCentral’s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe RingCentral is more favorable than Benchmark Energy.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares RingCentral and Benchmark Energy’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
RingCentral	$2.25 billion	1.43	-$165.24 million	($1.49)	-23.43
Benchmark Energy	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Benchmark Energy has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RingCentral.

Profitability

This table compares RingCentral and Benchmark Energy’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
RingCentral	-6.18%	N/A	-1.96%
Benchmark Energy	N/A	N/A	N/A

Volatility & Risk

RingCentral has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Benchmark Energy has a beta of 3.86, meaning that its share price is 286% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

RingCentral beats Benchmark Energy on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About RingCentral

RingCentral, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud communications, video meetings, collaboration, and contact center software-as-a-service solutions worldwide. The company's products include RingCentral Message Video Phone that provides a unified experience for communication and collaboration across multiple modes, including HD voice, video, SMS, messaging and collaboration, conferencing, online meetings, and fax; RingCentral Contact Center, a collaborative contact center solution that delivers AI-powered omnichannel and workforce engagement solutions with integrated RingCentral MVP; and RingCX, an AI-powered contact center that a native delivers omnichannel experience. It provides RingCentral Video, a video meeting service that includes the company's RCV video and team messaging capabilities; offers video and audio conferencing, team messaging, file sharing, contact, task, and calendar management, as well as pre-meeting, in-meeting, and post-meeting capabilities. In addition, the company offers RingCentral Professional Services, which include consultation, UCaaS and CCaaS implementation, VoIP phone system adoption, configuring custom workflows, customer and user onboarding, ongoing support, advanced support, managed services, and more. It serves a range of industries, including financial services, education, healthcare, legal services, real estate, retail, technology, insurance, construction, hospitality, state and local government, and others. It sells its products to enterprise customers, as well as small and medium-sized businesses through resellers and distributors, partners, and global service providers. RingCentral, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Belmont, California.

About Benchmark Energy

Benchmark Energy Corporation, through its subsidiary, Energy Partners LLC, buys industrial grade glycerin and sells it to boiler plants as an alternative bunker fuel in the United States and internationally. The company offers crude and refined glycerin, a co-product of biodiesel production used in various industrial and commercial applications, such as power, energy, and boiler operations, as well as in the de-icing process and manufacturing of animal feed. It has a strategic relationship with the University of North Dakota (UND) to utilize industrial grade glycerin as an additive to the UND coal-burning plant. The company is based in Coldspring, Texas.