Comparison of The Trade Desk Inc. (TTD) and HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS)

The Trade Desk Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD) and HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS), are influenced by contrast since they are both players in the Application Software. These factors are particularly influence the risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation of the two firms.

Valuation & Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
The Trade Desk Inc.	512.61M	20.64	89.22M	1.91	104.65
HubSpot Inc.	550.22M	13.76	59.48M	-1.52	0.00

Table 1 demonstrates The Trade Desk Inc. and HubSpot Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 provides us The Trade Desk Inc. and HubSpot Inc.’s return on assets, net margins and return on equity.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
The Trade Desk Inc.	17.41%	0%	0%
HubSpot Inc.	-10.81%	-18.3%	-6.3%

Liquidity

1.6 and 1.6 are the respective Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of The Trade Desk Inc. Its rival HubSpot Inc.’s Current and Quick Ratios are 4 and 4 respectively. HubSpot Inc. has a better chance of clearing its pay short and long-term debts than The Trade Desk Inc.

Analyst Recommendations

The Recommendations and Ratings for The Trade Desk Inc. and HubSpot Inc. are featured in the next table.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
The Trade Desk Inc.	0	0	2	3.00
HubSpot Inc.	0	2	3	2.60

The Trade Desk Inc. has a -17.60% downside potential and a consensus target price of $196.67. Competitively the average target price of HubSpot Inc. is $179.4, which is potential -0.24% downside. The results from earlier shows that analysts view suggest that HubSpot Inc. seems more appealing than The Trade Desk Inc.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

The shares of both The Trade Desk Inc. and HubSpot Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 83.7% and 92.5% respectively. About 1.4% of The Trade Desk Inc.’s share are held by insiders. On the other hand, insiders held about 6% of HubSpot 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)
The Trade Desk Inc.	-10.01%	-1.13%	32.07%	63.07%	166.79%	72.22%
HubSpot Inc.	0.93%	9.89%	5.61%	34.12%	65.02%	44.37%

For the past year The Trade Desk Inc. was more bullish than HubSpot Inc.

Summary

On 10 of the 13 factors The Trade Desk Inc. beats HubSpot 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.