As Application Software businesses, Ideanomics Inc. (NASDAQ:IDEX) and Five9 Inc. (NASDAQ:FIVN), are affected by compare. This especially applies to their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ideanomics Inc.	377.74M	0.65	27.43M	-0.35	0.00
Five9 Inc.	257.66M	11.82	N/A	-0.01	0.00

We can see in table 1 the earnings per share, gross revenue and valuation of Ideanomics Inc. and Five9 Inc.

Profitability

Table 2 shows the return on assets, return on equity and net margins of the two firms.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ideanomics Inc.	-7.26%	-70.4%	-18.7%
Five9 Inc.	0.00%	-0.2%	-0.1%

Volatility & Risk

Ideanomics Inc. has a 2.04 beta, while its volatility is 104.00% which is more volatile than S&P 500. Five9 Inc.’s 39.00% less volatile than S&P 500 which is a result of the 0.61 beta.

Liquidity

The Current Ratio of Ideanomics Inc. is 1.3 while its Quick Ratio stands at 1.3. The Current Ratio of rival Five9 Inc. is 7 and its Quick Ratio is has 7. Five9 Inc. is better equipped to clear short and long-term obligations than Ideanomics Inc.

Analyst Ratings

The following table shown below contains the ratings and recommendations for Ideanomics Inc. and Five9 Inc.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ideanomics Inc.	0	0	0	0.00
Five9 Inc.	0	4	6	2.60

Five9 Inc. on the other hand boasts of a $56.67 average price target and a 10.25% potential upside.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

The shares of both Ideanomics Inc. and Five9 Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 1.8% and 0% respectively. About 88.52% of Ideanomics Inc.’s share are owned by insiders. On the other hand, insiders owned about 0.8% of Five9 Inc.’s shares.

Performance

In this table we show the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Ideanomics Inc.	-2.13%	53.33%	1.66%	-54.46%	26.03%	53.74%
Five9 Inc.	-1.59%	2.7%	27.2%	8.96%	73.07%	20.11%

For the past year Ideanomics Inc. has stronger performance than Five9 Inc.

Summary

On 8 of the 10 factors Five9 Inc. beats Ideanomics Inc.

Five9, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud software for contact centers in the United States and internationally. It offers virtual contact center cloud platform that delivers a suite of applications which enables the breadth of contact center-related customer service, sales, and marketing functions; and acts a hub for omnichannel engagement between the clients and their customers, which enables them to manage the end-to-end customer experience in a single unified architecture. The companyÂ’s solution enables its clients to manage these customer interactions across various channels, including voice, chat, email, Web, social media, and mobile, as well as connects them to an appropriate agent. It also provides a set of management applications, including workforce management, reporting, quality management, and supervisor tools. The company serves customers in various industries, including banking and financial services, business process outsourcers, consumer, healthcare, and technology. Five9, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Ramon, California.