Both Bridgeline Digital Inc. (NASDAQ:BLIN) and Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLK) are Application Software companies, competing one another. We will compare their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | 13.57M | 0.26 | 7.53M | -1.63 | 0.00 |
| Splunk Inc. | 1.60B | 11.26 | 313.42M | -2.10 | 0.00 |
In table 1 we can see Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Splunk Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 has Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Splunk Inc.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | -55.49% | -72.8% | -43% |
| Splunk Inc. | -19.59% | -24.2% | -12.4% |
Risk and Volatility
Bridgeline Digital Inc. is 9.00% less volatile than Standard & Poor’s 500 because the company has a beta of 0.91. Competitively, Splunk Inc. is 114.00% more volatile than Standard & Poor’s 500, because of the 2.14 beta.
Liquidity
The Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Bridgeline Digital Inc. are 1 and 1. Competitively, Splunk Inc. has 1.7 and 1.7 for Current and Quick Ratio. Splunk Inc.’s better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than Bridgeline Digital Inc.
Analyst Recommendations
In next table is delivered Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Splunk Inc.’s ratings and recommmendations.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Splunk Inc. | 0 | 3 | 12 | 2.80 |
Competitively Splunk Inc. has a average price target of $129.47, with potential upside of 6.07%.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Splunk Inc. has shares owned by institutional investors as follows: 3% and 94.4%. Bridgeline Digital Inc.’s share owned by insiders are 25.02%. Competitively, 0.9% are Splunk Inc.’s share owned by insiders.
Performance
In this table we show the Week, Month, Quarter, Half Year, Year and YTD Performance of both pretenders.
| Performance (W) | Performance (M) | Performance (Q) | Performance (HY) | Performance (Y) | Performance (YTD) | |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | -11.37% | -21.47% | -70.17% | -74.36% | -86.57% | -87.22% |
| Splunk Inc. | -2.98% | 6.55% | -13.5% | -7.41% | 34.57% | 30.85% |
For the past year Bridgeline Digital Inc. had bearish trend while Splunk Inc. had bullish trend.
Summary
Splunk Inc. beats Bridgeline Digital Inc. on 9 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.
Splunk Inc. provides software solutions that enable organizations to gain real-time operational intelligence in the United States and internationally. The companyÂ’s products enable users to collect, index, search, explore, monitor, and analyze data regardless of format or source. It offers Splunk Enterprise, a machine data platform with collection, indexing, search, reporting, analysis, alerting, monitoring, and data management capabilities; and Splunk Cloud service. The company also provides Splunk Light, which offers log search and analysis for small IT environments; and Splunk Analytics for Hadoop, a software for exploring, analyzing, and visualizing data stored in Hadoop and Amazon S3. In addition, it offers Splunk Enterprise Security, which addresses emerging security threats; Splunk User Behavior Analytics that detects cyber-attacks and insider threats; and Splunk IT Service Intelligence, which monitors health and key performance indicators of critical IT services, as well as Splunk App for AWS to ensure cloud security and compliance; Splunk Stream to capture, analyze, and correlate network wire data; and DB Connect to get enterprise context; Palo Alto Networks App for Splunk to gain visibility to Palo Alto Networks firewalls; and Splunk App for Salesforce. Further, the company operates Splunkbase and Splunk Answers Websites, which provide an environment to share apps, collaborate on the use of its software, and provide community-based support, as well as offers application programming interfaces and software development kits. Additionally, it offers maintenance and customer support, training, and consulting and implementation services. The company serves cloud and online services, education, financial services, government, healthcare/pharmaceuticals, industrials/manufacturing, media/entertainment, retail/ecommerce, technology, and telecommunications industries. Splunk Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.