Endurance International Group (NASDAQ:EIGI) and Tenable (NASDAQ:TENB) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
Profitability
This table compares Endurance International Group and Tenable’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Endurance International Group | 0.09% | 0.60% | 0.04% |
| Tenable | -27.40% | N/A | -20.19% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings for Endurance International Group and Tenable, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Endurance International Group | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.25 |
| Tenable | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2.89 |
Endurance International Group presently has a consensus target price of $8.83, suggesting a potential upside of 86.75%. Tenable has a consensus target price of $38.83, suggesting a potential upside of 30.49%. Given Endurance International Group’s higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Endurance International Group is more favorable than Tenable.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
91.3% of Endurance International Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.3% of Tenable shares are held by institutional investors. 50.6% of Endurance International Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.9% of Tenable shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Endurance International Group and Tenable’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Endurance International Group | $1.15 billion | 0.60 | $4.53 million | $0.03 | 157.67 |
| Tenable | $267.36 million | 10.74 | -$73.52 million | ($1.36) | -21.88 |
Endurance International Group has higher revenue and earnings than Tenable. Tenable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Endurance International Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Endurance International Group beats Tenable on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
Endurance International Group Company Profile
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud-based platform solutions for small-and medium-sized businesses in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Web Presence, Domain, and Email Marketing. It offers Web hosting services, including entry-level shared hosting, and virtual private server and dedicated hosting solutions; Website building tools that enable subscribers to create a Web presence; domain registration, management, and resale services; malware protection solutions to protect subscribers’ Websites from viruses, malicious code, and other threats; and backup control solutions that enable subscribers to schedule, maintain, manage, and restore backups of their online data and Websites. The company also provides solutions that allow subscribers to have their Websites rendered on mobile devices; search engine optimization and marketing solutions; tools and services that enable subscribers to communicate with their customers and potential customers through social networks; and control panels and dashboards that offer subscribers with tools to analyze activity on their Websites. In addition, it offers email marketing solutions that enable subscribers to communicate with their customers and potential customers through email; email capabilities, including custom mailboxes that reflect a subscriber’s domain name, spam filters, email aliases, and forwarding functionality; email, collaboration, and file sharing tools; products that enable secure and encrypted payments, shopping carts, payment processing and related services, and mobile payments; platform that creates and manages digital storefront listings through one interface; and professional services and Web design services. The company also offers Blue Flash, which offers personal guidance and helps users to build their Websites. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Tenable Company Profile
Tenable Holdings, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company enterprise software platform enables visibility into an organization’s cyber exposure across the attack surface and deep insights that help organizations translate vulnerability data into business insights to understand and reduce their cybersecurity risk. It offers Tenable.io, a software as a service that manages and measures cyber exposure across a range of traditional information technology (IT) assets, such as networking infrastructure, desktops, and on-premises servers, as well as modern IT assets, such as cloud workloads, containers, Web applications, and Internet of Things and operational technology assets; and Tenable.sc, a solution to manage and measure cyber exposure across traditional information technology assets and can be run on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment, as well as Industrial Security. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.
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