Reviewing HubSpot Inc. (HUBS)’s and FireEye Inc. (NASDAQ:FEYE)’s results

Both HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) and FireEye Inc. (NASDAQ:FEYE) compete on a level playing field in the Application Software industry. We will evaluate their performance with regards to analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

Table 1 demonstrates HubSpot Inc. and FireEye Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 represents HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) and FireEye Inc. (NASDAQ:FEYE)’s return on assets, return on equity and net margins.

Risk and Volatility

A beta of 1.91 shows that HubSpot Inc. is 91.00% more volatile than S&P 500. Competitively, FireEye Inc.’s beta is 0.23 which is 77.00% less volatile than S&P 500.

Liquidity

HubSpot Inc.’s Current Ratio and Quick Ratio are 3.2 and 3.2 respectively. The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of its competitor FireEye Inc. are 2 and 2 respectively. HubSpot Inc. therefore has a better chance of paying off short and long-term obligations compared to FireEye Inc.

Analyst Recommendations

The table given features the ratings and recommendations for HubSpot Inc. and FireEye Inc.

$159.5 is HubSpot Inc.’s consensus price target while its potential upside is 0.75%. Competitively FireEye Inc. has an average price target of $19.8, with potential upside of 11.99%. The data from earlier shows that analysts belief suggest that FireEye Inc. seems more appealing than HubSpot Inc.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

Institutional investors held 97.4% of HubSpot Inc. shares and 76.7% of FireEye Inc. shares. Insiders held 6.5% of HubSpot Inc. shares. Competitively, insiders own roughly 2.7% of FireEye Inc.’s shares.

Performance

Here are the Week, Month, Quarter, Half Year, Year and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

For the past year HubSpot Inc.’s stock price has bigger growth than FireEye Inc.

Summary

HubSpot Inc. beats on 10 of the 12 factors FireEye Inc.

HubSpot, Inc. provides a cloud-based marketing and sales software platform for businesses in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Its software platform includes integrated applications, such as social media, search engine optimization, blogging, Website content management, marketing automation, email, CRM, analytics, and reporting that enables businesses to attract visitors to their Websites, convert visitors into leads, and close leads into customers and delight customers. The company also offers professional, and phone and email-based support services. HubSpot, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

FireEye, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions that allow organizations to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and remediate cyber-attacks. The company provides vector-specific appliance and cloud-based solutions detect and block known and unknown cyber-attacks. It offers threat detection and prevention solutions, including network security products; email security solutions; endpoint security solutions; and content security products; and security management and orchestration products, such as Central Management System, FireEye Security Orchestrator, Threat Analytics Platform; Malware Analysis series of appliances; and Enterprise Forensics series of appliances. It also offers Security-as-a-Service solutions comprising cloud-based Email Threat Prevention solution; FireEye Helix platform; and FireEye-as-a-Service managed service; threat intelligence subscriptions, such as Dynamic Threat Intelligence Cloud, Advanced Threat Intelligence, and FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence; and customer support and maintenance services. In addition, the company provides professional services, including incident response, compromise assessments, and related security consulting services; cyber threat intelligence services; and training services. It serves telecommunications providers, financial services entities, Internet search engines, social networking sites, stock exchanges, electrical grid operators, networking vendors, oil and gas companies, healthcare and pharmaceutical companies, and local and international governmental agencies. FireEye, Inc. provides its products and services through distributors, resellers, and strategic partners in the United States, the Asia Pacific, Japan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and other regions. The company was formerly known as NetForts, Inc. and changed its name to FireEye, Inc. in September 2005. FireEye, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.