We will be comparing the differences between Proofpoint Inc. (NASDAQ:PFPT) and HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) as far as analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation are concerned. The two businesses are rivals in the Application Software industry.
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Proofpoint Inc. | 716.99M | 9.26 | 103.75M | -1.99 | 0.00 |
| HubSpot Inc. | 512.98M | 13.29 | 63.83M | -1.66 | 0.00 |
Demonstrates Proofpoint Inc. and HubSpot Inc. earnings per share, top-line revenue and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 represents Proofpoint Inc. (NASDAQ:PFPT) and HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS)’s net margins, return on assets and return on equity.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Proofpoint Inc. | -14.47% | -25.7% | -9.2% |
| HubSpot Inc. | -12.44% | -27.7% | -8.2% |
Risk and Volatility
Proofpoint Inc. has a 1.84 beta, while its volatility is 84.00%, thus making it more volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500. HubSpot Inc. has a 1.91 beta and it is 91.00% more volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500.
Liquidity
0.8 and 0.8 are the respective Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Proofpoint Inc. Its rival HubSpot Inc.’s Current and Quick Ratios are 3 and 3 respectively. HubSpot Inc. has a better chance of clearing its pay short and long-term debts than Proofpoint Inc.
Analyst Recommendations
Ratings and Recommendations for Proofpoint Inc. and HubSpot Inc. can be find in next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Proofpoint Inc. | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2.89 |
| HubSpot Inc. | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2.50 |
Proofpoint Inc. has an average target price of $118, and a -1.58% downside potential. HubSpot Inc. on the other hand boasts of a $172.14 average target price and a 3.93% potential upside. Based on the data delivered earlier, HubSpot Inc. is looking more favorable than Proofpoint Inc., analysts belief.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Roughly 98% of Proofpoint Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors while 95.7% of HubSpot Inc. are owned by institutional investors. About 0.5% of Proofpoint Inc.’s share are owned by insiders. Insiders Competitively, owned 6.2% of HubSpot Inc. 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) | |
| Proofpoint Inc. | -4.12% | 12.73% | 23.13% | -4.23% | 7.11% | 37.02% |
| HubSpot Inc. | -3.56% | 3.59% | 25.52% | 14.76% | 46.22% | 30.43% |
For the past year Proofpoint Inc. was more bullish than HubSpot Inc.
Summary
HubSpot Inc. beats on 8 of the 12 factors Proofpoint Inc.
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.
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.