Head-To-Head Comparison: Absolute Software (OTCMKTS:ALSWF) versus Orbia Advance (OTCMKTS:MXCHY)

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Orbia Advance and Absolute Software”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Orbia Advance	$8.20 billion	0.15	$65.00 million	N/A	N/A
Absolute Software	$104.67 million	0.00	$10.64 million	$0.24	N/A

Orbia Advance has higher revenue and earnings than Absolute Software.

Dividends

Orbia Advance pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Absolute Software pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share. Absolute Software pays out 100.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

1.2% of Absolute Software shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Orbia Advance and Absolute Software’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Orbia Advance	1.81%	7.24%	2.00%
Absolute Software	10.16%	-23.28%	9.44%

Risk and Volatility

Orbia Advance has a beta of 0.33, meaning that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Absolute Software has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Orbia Advance beats Absolute Software on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Orbia Advance

Orbia Advance Corporation, S.A.B. de C.V. provides products and solutions for precision agriculture, building and infrastructure, fluorinated, polymer, and connectivity sectors worldwide. The company offers irrigation systems, agricultural and greenhouse projects, digital farming technologies, and related services; and connectivity solutions, including conduits, cable-in conduit, and other HDPE products and solutions. It also provides water delivering solutions for drinking water supply, sanitation, and urban water resilience; fluorine and downstream products, comprising fluorspar mine and produces intermediates, refrigerants, and propellants for used in automotive, infrastructure, semiconductor, health, medicine, climate control, food cold chain, energy storage, computing, and telecommunications applications; and general and specialty resins, PVC, and compounds and additives for stabilizers and plasticizers, as well as compounds formulated from polyolefin, thermoplastic polyurethane, and thermoplastic elastomer polymers for various applications. The company was formerly known as Mexichem, S.A.B. de C.V. and changed its name to Orbia Advance Corporation, S.A.B. de C.V. in August 2019. Orbia Advance Corporation, S.A.B. de C.V. was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico.

About Absolute Software

Absolute Software Corp. engages in the provision of cloud-based service that supports the management and security of computing devices, applications, and data for a variety of organizations. Its solutions includes education, financial services, general date protection regulations (GDPR) compliance, government, healthcare, professional services, and technology solutions such as Absolute for Android, and Absolute for Chromebook. The company was founded on November 24, 1993 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.