Since HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) and Proofpoint Inc. (NASDAQ:PFPT) are part of the Application Software industry, they are influenced by contrast. The influences particularly affect the risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership of both companies.
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| HubSpot Inc. | 512.98M | 13.32 | 63.83M | -1.66 | 0.00 |
| Proofpoint Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.99 | 0.00 |
Table 1 showcases the gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation of HubSpot Inc. and Proofpoint Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 has HubSpot Inc. and Proofpoint Inc.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| HubSpot Inc. | -12.44% | -27.7% | -8.2% |
| Proofpoint Inc. | 0.00% | -25.7% | -9.2% |
Risk and Volatility
HubSpot Inc.’s volatility measures that it’s 91.00% more volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500 due to its 1.91 beta. Proofpoint Inc.’s 1.84 beta is the reason why it is 84.00% more volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500.
Liquidity
HubSpot Inc.’s Current Ratio and Quick Ratio are 3 and 3 respectively. The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of its competitor Proofpoint Inc. are 0.8 and 0.8 respectively. HubSpot Inc. therefore has a better chance of paying off short and long-term obligations compared to Proofpoint Inc.
Analyst Ratings
The table delivered features the ratings and recommendations for HubSpot Inc. and Proofpoint Inc.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| HubSpot Inc. | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2.43 |
| Proofpoint Inc. | 0 | 2 | 8 | 2.80 |
HubSpot Inc.’s upside potential is 2.71% at a $170.5 consensus target price. Competitively the consensus target price of Proofpoint Inc. is $119.7, which is potential -2.33% downside. Based on the analysts opinion we can conclude, HubSpot Inc. is looking more favorable than Proofpoint Inc.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
Institutional investors held 95.7% of HubSpot Inc. shares and 98% of Proofpoint Inc. shares. HubSpot Inc.’s share held by insiders are 6.2%. On the other hand, insiders held about 0.5% of Proofpoint Inc.’s shares.
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. | -3.56% | 3.59% | 25.52% | 14.76% | 46.22% | 30.43% |
| Proofpoint Inc. | -4.12% | 12.73% | 23.13% | -4.23% | 7.11% | 37.02% |
For the past year HubSpot Inc. was less bullish than Proofpoint Inc.
Summary
HubSpot Inc. beats on 6 of the 11 factors Proofpoint 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.
Proofpoint, Inc. operates as a security-as-a-service (SaaS) provider that enables large and mid-sized organizations to defend, protect, archive, and govern their sensitive data worldwide. It offers threat protection, incident response, regulatory compliance, archiving, governance, eDiscovery, and secure communication solutions. The company provides email security products that include Enterprise Protection secure email gateway, Email Fraud Defense, Email Continuity, and Proofpoint Essentials, which are design to protect customers’ mission-critical messaging infrastructure from outside threats, enable enterprises to authenticate their email to reduce consumer phishing, fight business email compromise attacks, and keep email operational in the event of a service provider outage. It also offers threat protection products that detect and prevent threats across email, social media, mobile apps, and SaaS applications, as well as enable enterprises to understand about the attacks they are seeing and the adversaries behind them; and information protection and archiving products, which ensure the enforcement of data governance, data retention, and supervision policies and mandates; cost-effective litigation support through efficient discovery; and active legal-hold management. In addition, the company provides digital risk protection products to deliver real-time, omnichannel digital risk discovery, and protection from brand fraud, data loss, physical threats, and cyber threats. Further, it offers platform services comprising threat detection, threat intel extraction, Nexus threat graph, real-time detection, information classification, and intelligent policy. The company serves organizations in verticals, such as aerospace and defense, education, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail. Proofpoint, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
