HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) is a company in the Application Software industry and that’s how we compare it to its peers. The comparing will be based on the analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
97.4% of HubSpot Inc.’s shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.59% of all Application Software’s companies shares are held by institutional investors. 6.5% of HubSpot Inc. shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.68% of all Application Software companies shares are held by company insiders.
Profitability
Table 1 has HubSpot Inc. and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| HubSpot Inc. | -12.44% | -28.80% | -8.50% |
| Industry Average | 4.71% | 49.50% | 10.20% |
Valuation & Earnings
The following data compares HubSpot Inc. and its peers’ valuation, net income and top-line revenue.
| Net Income | Gross Revenue | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| HubSpot Inc. | 63.83M | 512.98M | 0.00 |
| Industry Average | 41.49M | 880.39M | 161.84 |
Analyst Ratings
Table 3 shows breakdown of current ratings for HubSpot Inc. and its peers.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| HubSpot Inc. | 0 | 4 | 5 | 2.56 |
| Industry Average | 1.08 | 2.53 | 3.21 | 2.63 |
$168.75 is the consensus target price of HubSpot Inc., with a potential upside of 1.60%. The potential upside of the competitors is 74.67%. HubSpot Inc.’s strong consensus rating and high possible upside, looks like is making equities research analysts believe that the business is more favorable than its peers.
Performance
Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of HubSpot Inc. and its competitors.
| Performance (W) | Performance (M) | Performance (Q) | Performance (HY) | Performance (Y) | Performance (YTD) | |
| HubSpot Inc. | -5.25% | -8.6% | -14.71% | 1.6% | 59.29% | 49.02% |
| Industry Average | 4.98% | 9.32% | 17.30% | 22.53% | 49.23% | 51.89% |
For the past year HubSpot Inc. has weaker performance than HubSpot Inc.’s peers.
Liquidity
The Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of HubSpot Inc. are 3.2 and 3.2. Competitively, HubSpot Inc.’s competitors have 2.45 and 2.41 for Current and Quick Ratio. HubSpot Inc. has better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than HubSpot Inc.’s peers.
Risk and Volatility
HubSpot Inc. is 91.00% more volatile than S&P 500 because the stock has a beta of 1.91. Competitively, HubSpot Inc.’s competitors are 12.62% more volatile than S&P 500, because of the 1.13 beta.
Dividends
HubSpot Inc. does not pay a dividend.
Summary
HubSpot Inc.’s peers show that they’re better in 3 of the 4 factors compared to the company itself.
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.
