GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE:GDDY) and Net Element Inc. (NASDAQ:NETE) are two firms in the Internet Software & Services that compete against each other. Below is a comparison of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| GoDaddy Inc. | 2.66B | 5.05 | 77.10M | 0.42 | 173.82 |
| Net Element Inc. | 65.15M | 0.35 | 7.51M | -2.48 | 0.00 |
Table 1 shows gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation of the two companies.
Profitability
Table 2 has GoDaddy Inc. and Net Element Inc.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| GoDaddy Inc. | 2.90% | 11.6% | 1.3% |
| Net Element Inc. | -11.53% | -65.4% | -26.5% |
Risk & Volatility
A 0.66 beta means GoDaddy Inc.’s volatility is 34.00% less than Standard and Poor’s 500’s volatility. Competitively, Net Element Inc.’s 2.00% volatility makes it less volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500, because of the 0.98 beta.
Liquidity
The current Quick Ratio of GoDaddy Inc. is 0.8 while its Current Ratio is 0.8. Meanwhile, Net Element Inc. has a Current Ratio of 0.9 while its Quick Ratio is 0.9. Net Element Inc. is better positioned to pay off its short-term and long-term debts than GoDaddy Inc.
Analyst Ratings
The following table delivered below contains the ratings and recommendations for GoDaddy Inc. and Net Element Inc.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| GoDaddy Inc. | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2.89 |
| Net Element Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
GoDaddy Inc. has a 16.91% upside potential and a consensus price target of $87.67.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
Roughly 0% of GoDaddy Inc. shares are held by institutional investors while 17.8% of Net Element Inc. are owned by institutional investors. About 0.2% of GoDaddy Inc.’s share are held by insiders. Competitively, insiders own roughly 5.6% of Net Element 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) | |
| GoDaddy Inc. | -2.19% | 7.39% | 11.5% | -8.72% | 24.16% | 12.31% |
| Net Element Inc. | -0.49% | 1.33% | -5.59% | -1.94% | 11.36% | 6.29% |
For the past year GoDaddy Inc. was more bullish than Net Element Inc.
Summary
GoDaddy Inc. beats Net Element Inc. on 11 of the 12 factors.
GoDaddy Inc. designs and develops cloud-based technology products for small businesses, Web design professionals, and individuals in the United States and internationally. It provides domain name registration product that enables to engage customers at the initial stage of establishing a digital identity; hosting and presence products, such as shared Website hosting, Website hosting on virtual dedicated servers and dedicated servers, managed hosting, and security. The company also offers Website builder, an online tool that enables customers to build Websites; online store product that allows customers to create their own standalone Website with an integrated online store optimized for mobile shopping; and search engine visibility product that helps customers get their Websites found on search sites through search engine optimization. In addition, the company offers business application products, including Microsoft Office 365, email accounts, email marketing, and telephony services. GoDaddy Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Net Element, Inc. operates as a financial technology and value-added solutions company worldwide. It operates in three segments: North America Transaction Solutions, Mobile Solutions, and Online Solutions. The North America Transaction Solutions segment provides technology and services that businesses require to accept cashless transaction for retail card-present, e-commerce, or card-not-present mail order/telephone order transactions; and Aptito, a cloud-based point of sale (POS) platform, which includes hospitality, mobile POS, and small to medium sized business retail POS applications, as well as offers mobile payment and merchant back office reporting services, and merchant performance analytical tools. The Mobile Solutions segment provides an integrated mobile billing and mobile commerce solution for digital merchants, such as social networks, game developers, online magazines, mobile applications, and digital media operators to monetize their content in a mobile environment. It also offers various mobile payment solutions for Web services and mobile applications. This segment enables mobile users to pay for purchases through mobile devices, interactive devices, or Web without a credit card or a bank account. The Online Solutions segment operates PayOnline, a software-as-a-service suite of solutions for electronic and mobile commerce gateway and payment processing platform that facilitate payment acceptance and processing through point-to-point encryption and tokenization solutions. It operates in North America, the Russian Federation, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The company was formerly known as Net Element International, Inc. and changed its name to Net Element, Inc. in December 2013. Net Element, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in North Miami Beach, Florida.