HubSpot Inc. (HUBS) and Micro Focus International plc (NYSE:MFGP) Comparing side by side

HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) and Micro Focus International plc (NYSE:MFGP) are two firms in the Application Software that compete against each other. Below is a comparison of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HubSpot Inc.	550.22M	13.68	59.48M	-1.52	0.00
Micro Focus International plc	3.17B	2.83	471.41M	1.31	17.83

Table 1 showcases the top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation of HubSpot Inc. and Micro Focus International plc.

Profitability

Table 2 provides the return on equity, return on assets and net margins of the two firms.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HubSpot Inc.	-10.81%	-18.3%	-6.3%
Micro Focus International plc	14.87%	0%	0%

Dividends

Micro Focus International plc offers an annual dividend of $1.01 per share, bundled with 3.95% dividend yield. HubSpot Inc. does not pay a dividend.

Analyst Ratings

The table shown features the ratings and recommendations for HubSpot Inc. and Micro Focus International plc.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HubSpot Inc.	0	2	3	2.60
Micro Focus International plc	0	0	0	0.00

HubSpot Inc.’s consensus price target is $179.4, while its potential upside is 0.36%.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

Institutional investors owned 92.5% of HubSpot Inc. shares and 18.77% of Micro Focus International plc shares. About 6% of HubSpot Inc.’s share are owned by insiders.

Performance

In this table we provide 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.	0.93%	9.89%	5.61%	34.12%	65.02%	44.37%
Micro Focus International plc	-0.38%	17.48%	53.47%	78.98%	72.94%	72.64%

For the past year HubSpot Inc.’s stock price has smaller growth than Micro Focus International plc.

Summary

On 10 of the 13 factors Micro Focus International plc 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.

Micro Focus International plc, an infrastructure software company, develops, sells, and supports software products and solutions to federal, airlines, and healthcare industries in the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Japan, and internationally. The company operates through Micro Focus and SUSE segments. It provides software products in the areas of collaboration, endpoint management, file and networking services, identity and access management, information archiving, security management, terminal emulation, and software delivery and testing, as well as COBOL development and mainframe, and data center solutions. The company offers enterprise Linux, OpenStack private cloud, software-defined storage, and other IT infrastructure management and optimization solutions; and professional, and training and education services. Micro Focus International plc was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Newbury, the United Kingdom.