Bridgeline Digital Inc. (BLIN)’s Financial Results Comparing With Carbon Black Inc. (NASDAQ:CBLK)

As Application Software companies, Bridgeline Digital Inc. (NASDAQ:BLIN) and Carbon Black Inc. (NASDAQ:CBLK) are our subject to contrast. And more specifically their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

	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
Carbon Black Inc.	209.72M	4.37	281.55M	-4.57	0.00

Table 1 highlights Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Carbon Black Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 has Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Carbon Black 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%
Carbon Black Inc.	-134.25%	0%	0%

Liquidity

Bridgeline Digital Inc. has a Current Ratio of 1.7 and a Quick Ratio of 1.7. Competitively, Carbon Black Inc.’s Current Ratio is 1.5 and has 1.5 Quick Ratio. Bridgeline Digital Inc.’s better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than Carbon Black Inc.

Analyst Ratings

The next table highlights the delivered recommendations and ratings for Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Carbon Black Inc.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bridgeline Digital Inc.	0	0	0	0.00
Carbon Black Inc.	0	1	2	2.67

Competitively Carbon Black Inc. has a consensus target price of $18.67, with potential upside of 44.28%.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

Roughly 18.2% of Bridgeline Digital Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors while 80.7% of Carbon Black Inc. are owned by institutional investors. Insiders owned 7.48% of Bridgeline Digital Inc. shares. Insiders Comparatively, owned 2.7% of Carbon Black Inc. 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%
Carbon Black Inc.	0.62%	-16.4%	-22.73%	-48.34%	0%	-3.5%

For the past year Bridgeline Digital Inc. has stronger performance than Carbon Black Inc.

Summary

Bridgeline Digital Inc. beats on 6 of the 11 factors Carbon Black Inc.

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.

Carbon Black, Inc. provides security solutions in the United States and internationally. Its security cloud platform captures, records, and analyzes unfiltered endpoint data. The company’s solutions enable customers to predict, prevent, detect, respond to and remediate cyber attacks before they cause a damaging incident or data breach. Its solutions are used to augment or replace legacy antivirus software, prevent malware and fileless attacks, protect against ransomware, hunt down threats, respond to and remediate security incidents, lock down critical systems and applications, lock down critical systems and applications, secure workloads and applications in virtualized and cloud environments, comply with regulatory mandates, and enhance other security products through its unfiltered endpoint data. The company serves enterprises, government agencies, and mid-sized organizations. Carbon Black, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.