Head-To-Head Survey: Zapata Computing (NASDAQ:ZPTA) versus Global-E Online (NASDAQ:GLBE)

Global-E Online (NASDAQ:GLBE) and Zapata Computing (NASDAQ:ZPTA) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.

Risk & Volatility

Global-E Online has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zapata Computing has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Global-E Online and Zapata Computing”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Global-E Online	$632.89 million	9.52	-$133.80 million	($0.74)	-49.55
Zapata Computing	$5.68 million	2.63	-$860,000.00	N/A	N/A

Zapata Computing has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Global-E Online.

Profitability

This table compares Global-E Online and Zapata Computing’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Global-E Online	-17.33%	-16.41%	-12.78%
Zapata Computing	N/A	N/A	-60.05%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

94.6% of Global-E Online shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.2% of Zapata Computing shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.6% of Global-E Online shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Zapata Computing shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Global-E Online and Zapata Computing, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Global-E Online	0	0	11	0	3.00
Zapata Computing	0	0	2	0	3.00

Global-E Online currently has a consensus target price of $42.82, suggesting a potential upside of 16.77%. Zapata Computing has a consensus target price of $1.63, suggesting a potential upside of 247.22%. Given Zapata Computing’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Zapata Computing is more favorable than Global-E Online.

Summary

Global-E Online beats Zapata Computing on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Global-E Online

Global-E Online Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides a platform to enable and accelerate direct-to-consumer cross-border e-commerce in Israel, the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally. Its platform enables international shoppers to buy online and merchants to sell from, and to, worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel.

About Zapata Computing

Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. operates as an industrial generative artificial intelligence (AI) software company in the United States. The company offers subscription-based solutions that combine software and services to develop generative AI applications, as well as accompanying services to solve complex industrial problems. It also provides Zapata AI Sense, a suite of algorithms and complex mathematical models to enhance analytics and other data-driven applications; Zapata AI Prose, a set of generative AI solutions based on large language models for generic chatbot applications; and Orquestra, an industrial generative AI application development platform, which provides sense and prose. It serves enterprise organizations. Zapata Computing Holdings Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.