Bridgeline Digital Inc. (BLIN) and Veritone Inc. (NASDAQ:VERI) Comparing side by side – The Financial Examiner

Both Bridgeline Digital Inc. (NASDAQ:BLIN) and Veritone Inc. (NASDAQ:VERI) are each other’s competitor in the Application Software industry. Thus the compare of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership.

Valuation & Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bridgeline Digital Inc.	11.97M	0.35	12.06M	-2.11	0.00
Veritone Inc.	27.05M	4.24	61.10M	-3.47	0.00

Table 1 showcases the gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation of Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Veritone Inc.

Profitability

Table 2 shows Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Veritone Inc.’s return on equity, return on assets and net margins.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bridgeline Digital Inc.	-100.75%	-200.3%	-98.7%
Veritone Inc.	-225.88%	-91.9%	-58.7%

Liquidity

The Current Ratio of Bridgeline Digital Inc. is 1.7 while its Quick Ratio stands at 1.7. The Current Ratio of rival Veritone Inc. is 1.7 and its Quick Ratio is has 1.7. is better equipped to clear short and long-term obligations than .

Institutional and Insider Ownership

Roughly 18.2% of Bridgeline Digital Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors while 28.7% of Veritone Inc. are owned by institutional investors. Insiders owned 7.48% of Bridgeline Digital Inc. shares. Comparatively, insiders own roughly 5.8% of Veritone Inc.’s shares.

Performance

Here are 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%
Veritone Inc.	11.95%	33.58%	20.78%	-30.94%	-44.03%	87.37%

For the past year Bridgeline Digital Inc. had bearish trend while Veritone Inc. had bullish trend.

Summary

Veritone Inc. beats Bridgeline Digital Inc. on 5 of the 9 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.

Veritone, Inc., a cloud-based cognitive software company, develops a proprietary artificial intelligence platform for various markets in the United States and internationally. Its cloud-based open platform integrates and orchestrates an ecosystem of cognitive engines to reveal multivariate insights from various amounts of audio, video, and structured data; and incorporates proprietary technology to manage and integrate a range of AI processes to mimic human cognitive functions comprising perception, reasoning, prediction, and problem solving to transform unstructured data into structured data. The company offers media agency services, including media planning and strategy, media buying and placement, campaign messaging, clearance verification and attribution, and custom analytics to manage, deliver, optimize, verify, and quantify advertising campaigns and content distribution for various clients across multiple channels comprising broadcast radio, satellite audio, streaming audio, broadcast and cable television, digital video, and podcasting. It also provides Software-as-a-Service solutions for media owners and broadcasters to automatically index and organize audio and video content to search, discover, and analyze their media for programming and optimization; political organizations to analyze public and private media, conduct research, and provide access to previously inaccessible data; legal professionals to find the critical details of their cases by storing, organizing, and analyzing evidentiary media; and police and other government authorities to organize and gain insight from the large amount of audio, video, and structured data they accumulate on a daily basis, as well as offers solutions for other markets, including commercial security and retail. The company was formerly known as Veritone Delaware, Inc. and changed its name to Veritone, Inc. in July 2014. Veritone, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.