This is therefore a contrasting of the institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation in Bridgeline Digital Inc. (NASDAQ:BLIN) and Elastic N.V. (NYSE:ESTC). The two are both Application Software companies that compete with one another.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | 11.97M | 0.25 | 12.06M | -2.11 | 0.00 |
| Elastic N.V. | 240.63M | 24.67 | 88.87M | -1.13 | 0.00 |
Demonstrates Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Elastic N.V. earnings per share, gross revenue and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 hightlights the net margins, return on assets and return on equity of the two companies.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | -100.75% | -200.3% | -98.7% |
| Elastic N.V. | -36.93% | 0% | 0% |
Liquidity
The Current Ratio of Bridgeline Digital Inc. is 1.7 while its Quick Ratio stands at 1.7. The Current Ratio of rival Elastic N.V. is 2.6 and its Quick Ratio is has 2.6. Elastic N.V. is better equipped to clear short and long-term obligations than Bridgeline Digital Inc.
Analyst Ratings
The next table highlights the shown recommendations and ratings for Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Elastic N.V.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Elastic N.V. | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2.67 |
Competitively Elastic N.V. has an average price target of $103, with potential upside of 27.16%.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
Institutional investors held 18.2% of Bridgeline Digital Inc. shares and 50.2% of Elastic N.V. shares. 7.48% are Bridgeline Digital Inc.’s share held by insiders. Comparatively, insiders own roughly 22.2% of Elastic N.V.’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) | |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | 0% | -12.62% | -34.34% | -74.19% | -87.51% | -0.52% |
| Elastic N.V. | -7.67% | 6% | 27.6% | 0% | 0% | 26.05% |
For the past year Bridgeline Digital Inc. had bearish trend while Elastic N.V. had bullish trend.
Summary
Elastic N.V. beats Bridgeline Digital Inc. on 10 of the 11 factors.
Bridgeline Digital, Inc. operates as a digital engagement company in the United States. The companyÂ’s iAPPS platform enables companies and developers to create Websites, Web applications, and online stores. It offers iAPPS Experience Manager, a marketing automation engine and content management system; iAPPS Content Manager that enables non-technical users to create, edit, and publish content via a browser-based interface; and iAPPS Commerce, an online B2B and B2C e-commerce solution, which allows users to manage domestic and international commerce initiatives. The company also provides iAPPS Marketier, an online marketing management solution that helps marketers drive to their sites through personalized and targeted marketing automation flows; and iAPPS Analyzer to manage, measure, and optimize Web properties by recording detailed events and mining data for statistical analysis. In addition, it offers iAPPS Social, a social media management solution that empowers customers to set up customized watch lists; and iAPPSds, a Web content management and e-commerce platform to multi-unit organizations and franchises. Further, the company provides digital strategy, Web design and development, usability engineering, information architecture, and search engine optimization services; co-location, application monitoring, emergency response, version control, load balancing, managed firewall security, and virus protection services; and shared, dedicated, and Software as a Service hosting services. It serves vertical markets, such as financial services, franchises/multi-unit organizations, retail brand names, health services and life sciences, technology, credit unions and regional banks, and associations and foundations through its direct sales force. The company was formerly known as Bridgeline Software, Inc. and changed its name to Bridgeline Digital, Inc. in March 2010. Bridgeline Digital, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Elastic N.V. develops and delivers technology that enables users to search structured and unstructured data for a range of consumer and enterprise applications. It primarily provides Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization. Its Elastic Stack comprises products, such as Elasticsearch, a distributed, real-time search and analytics engine, and data store for various types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the Elastic Stack; Beats, a single-purpose data shippers for sending data from edge machines to Elasticsearch or Logstash; and Logstash, a data processing pipeline for ingesting data into Elasticsearch or other storage systems. The company also offers software solutions on the Elastic Stack that address cases, including app search, site search, enterprise search, logging, metrics, application performance monitoring, business analytics, and security analytics. Its products are used by individual developers and organizations of a range of industries. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
