Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ:MIME) and HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS), both competing one another are Application Software companies. We will contrast their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Mimecast Limited | 321.58M | 9.09 | 11.62M | -0.25 | 0.00 |
| HubSpot Inc. | 512.98M | 13.18 | 63.83M | -0.36 | 0.00 |
Table 1 highlights Mimecast Limited and HubSpot Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 hightlights the return on equity, return on assets and net margins of the two companies.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Mimecast Limited | -3.61% | -12.2% | -3.8% |
| HubSpot Inc. | -12.44% | -28.8% | -8.5% |
Liquidity
Mimecast Limited’s Current Ratio is 1.3 while its Quick Ratio is 1.3. On the competitive side is, HubSpot Inc. which has a 3.2 Current Ratio and a 3.2 Quick Ratio. HubSpot Inc. is better positioned to pay off short and long-term obligations compared to Mimecast Limited.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
Roughly 76% of Mimecast Limited shares are owned by institutional investors while 97.4% of HubSpot Inc. are owned by institutional investors. 4.6% are Mimecast Limited’s share owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% are HubSpot Inc.’s share owned by insiders.
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) | |
| Mimecast Limited | -5.83% | -1.18% | -17.33% | -18.77% | 22.97% | 22.29% |
| HubSpot Inc. | -5.25% | -8.6% | -14.71% | 1.6% | 59.29% | 49.02% |
For the past year Mimecast Limited was less bullish than HubSpot Inc.
Summary
On 6 of the 10 factors Mimecast Limited beats HubSpot Inc.
Mimecast Limited, a email and data security company, provides cloud security and risk management services for corporate information and email. The company offers Mimecast Email Security services, including targeted threat protection services, such as URL Protect that addresses the threat from emails containing malicious links; Attachment Protect that reduces threat from weaponized or malware-laden attachments used in spear-phishing and other attacks; Impersonation Protect that gives protection from malware-less social engineering attacks; and Internal Email Protect, which allows customers to monitor, detect, and remediate security threats that originate from within their internal email systems. Its Mimecast Email Security services also comprise Secure Messaging for sharing sensitive information with external contacts through email; and Data Leak Prevention, which prevents the inadvertent or malicious loss of sensitive corporate data with advanced data leak prevention and content controls. In addition, the company offers Mimecast Mailbox Continuity, which protects email and data against the threat of downtime as a result of system failure, natural disasters, planned maintenance, system upgrades, and migrations; and Mimecast Enterprise Information Archiving that offers cloud archive consolidation of inbound, outbound and internal email, files, and instant messaging in an archive, as well as incorporates legacy data from additional archives into the same searchable store. Further, it provides Service Bundles, a unified service managed from a single administration console; and Mimecast Mobile and Desktop Apps for mobile, PC, and Mac users to get self-service access to security features. The company sells its services through direct sales and channel partners. Mimecast Limited was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
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.
