Comparison of HubSpot Inc. (HUBS) and Cheetah Mobile Inc. (NYSE:CMCM)

We will be comparing the differences between HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) and Cheetah Mobile Inc. (NYSE:CMCM) as far as dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation are concerned. The two businesses are rivals in the Application Software industry.

Valuation and Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HubSpot Inc.	169	13.73	N/A	-1.52	0.00
Cheetah Mobile Inc.	6	0.00	N/A	1.54	3.82

In table 1 we can see HubSpot Inc. and Cheetah Mobile Inc.’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 shows us the net margins, return on assets and return on equity of both businesses.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HubSpot Inc.	0.00%	-18.3%	-6.3%
Cheetah Mobile Inc.	0.00%	0%	0%

Volatility & Risk

HubSpot Inc. has a 1.9 beta, while its volatility is 90.00%, thus making it more volatile than S&P 500. Competitively, Cheetah Mobile Inc.’s beta is 2.3 which is 130.00% more volatile than S&P 500.

Liquidity

The current Quick Ratio of HubSpot Inc. is 4 while its Current Ratio is 4. Meanwhile, Cheetah Mobile Inc. has a Current Ratio of 3 while its Quick Ratio is 3. HubSpot Inc. is better positioned to pay off its short-term and long-term debts than Cheetah Mobile Inc.

Analyst Recommendations

In next table is shown HubSpot Inc. and Cheetah Mobile Inc.’s ratings and recommendations.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HubSpot Inc.	0	2	2	2.50
Cheetah Mobile Inc.	1	0	0	1.00

HubSpot Inc.’s average target price is $176.5, while its potential downside is -1.62%. Meanwhile, Cheetah Mobile Inc.’s average target price is $5.8, while its potential upside is 80.12%. The results provided earlier shows that Cheetah Mobile Inc. appears more favorable than HubSpot Inc., based on analyst belief.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

HubSpot Inc. and Cheetah Mobile Inc. has shares owned by institutional investors as follows: 92.5% and 22.7%. 6% are HubSpot Inc.’s share owned by insiders. Competitively, Cheetah Mobile Inc. has 16.14% of it’s share owned by insiders.

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)
HubSpot Inc.	0.93%	9.89%	5.61%	34.12%	65.02%	44.37%
Cheetah Mobile Inc.	0%	-5.93%	-16.86%	-35.21%	-51.45%	-3.93%

For the past year HubSpot Inc. has 44.37% stronger performance while Cheetah Mobile Inc. has -3.93% weaker performance.

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.

Cheetah Mobile Inc. operates a platform that offers mobile and personal computer (PC) applications for its users and global content promotional channels. The companyÂ’s suite of utility applications optimizes mobile and PC Internet system performance and provides real time protection against known and unknown security threats. Its mobile and PC applications for users include Clean Master, a junk file cleaning, memory boosting, and privacy protection tool for mobile devices; CM Security, an anti-virus and security application for mobile devices; Battery Doctor, a power optimization tool for mobile devices; Cheetah Browser, a safe Web browser for PCs and mobile devices; CM Browser, a mobile browser; CM Launcher, a secure launcher that offers acceleration, secure protection, and stylish wallpapers, as well as automatically organizes mobile applications based on personal behavior; Photo Grid, a photo collage application that allows users to create professional looking collages of photos through an intuitive interface for mobile devices; CM Locker, a lightweight lock screen; and Duba Anti-virus, an Internet security application for PC and mobile devices. The company also offers content-driven applications comprising Live.me, a live video streaming application; and News Republic, a global mobile news service operator, as well as various products, which include mobile advertising publishing; mobile advertising platform; Duba.com personal start page that aggregates online resources and provides users access to their online destinations; Web and mobile games publishing; and cloud-based data analytics engines. It serves direct advertisers, including mobile application developers, mobile game developers, and e-commerce companies, as well as search engines. The company was formerly known as Kingsoft Internet Software Holdings Limited and changed its name to Cheetah Mobile Inc. in March 2014. Cheetah Mobile Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.