Both HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) and Avalara Inc. (NYSE:AVLR) are Application Software companies, competing one another. We will contrast their profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| HubSpot Inc. | 512.98M | 13.34 | 63.83M | -1.66 | 0.00 |
| Avalara Inc. | 272.10M | 14.24 | 75.55M | -1.13 | 0.00 |
Table 1 highlights HubSpot Inc. and Avalara Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 has HubSpot Inc. and Avalara Inc.’s return on assets, net margins and return on equity.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| HubSpot Inc. | -12.44% | -27.7% | -8.2% |
| Avalara Inc. | -27.77% | 49% | -25% |
Liquidity
The Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of HubSpot Inc. are 3 and 3. Competitively, Avalara Inc. has 1.2 and 1.2 for Current and Quick Ratio. HubSpot Inc.’s better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than Avalara Inc.
Analyst Recommendations
HubSpot Inc. and Avalara Inc. Ratings and Recommendations are available on the next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| HubSpot Inc. | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2.50 |
| Avalara Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
The consensus price target of HubSpot Inc. is $172.14, with potential upside of 3.57%.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
Roughly 95.7% of HubSpot Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors while 74.1% of Avalara Inc. are owned by institutional investors. Insiders owned roughly 6.2% of HubSpot Inc.’s shares. On the other hand, insiders owned about 1.1% of Avalara 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) | |
| HubSpot Inc. | -3.56% | 3.59% | 25.52% | 14.76% | 46.22% | 30.43% |
| Avalara Inc. | 1.56% | 29.22% | 62.99% | 32.1% | 0% | 65.39% |
For the past year HubSpot Inc. has weaker performance than Avalara Inc.
Summary
On 7 of the 11 factors HubSpot Inc. beats Avalara 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.
Avalara, Inc. provides transaction tax compliance cloud-based solutions worldwide. It offers a suite of compliance solutions that enable businesses to address the complexity of transaction tax compliance; process transactions in real time; produce detailed records of transaction tax determinations; and reduce errors, audit exposure, and total transaction tax compliance costs. The company’s solutions include AvaTax, a solution for determining sales tax in the United States; Avalara Returns for tax return preparation, filing, and remittance; and Avalara Compliance Document Management solution, which creates, validates, stores, and manages sales tax exemption and reseller certificates. It also provides professional services, including nexus studies and analysis, voluntary compliance initiatives, tax registrations, and specialized tax research; MatrixMaster, a product taxability database for retail operations; Avalara CloudConnect, a hardware device; VAT Expert, a web-based solution that checks the validity of customer and supplier VAT numbers and provides VAT determinations in the form of invoices; and Brazilian tax compliance solutions that address the Brazilian transaction tax regimes. The company was formerly known as Advantage Solutions, Inc. and changed its name to Avalara, Inc. in December 2005. Avalara, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
