Reviewing HubSpot Inc. (HUBS)’s and Cheetah Mobile Inc. (NYSE:CMCM)’s results

HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) and Cheetah Mobile Inc. (NYSE:CMCM) compete against each other in the Application Software sector. We will contrast them and contrast their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Valuation & Earnings

In table 1 we can see HubSpot Inc. and Cheetah Mobile Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 demonstrates the return on assets, net margins and return on equity of HubSpot Inc. and Cheetah Mobile Inc.

Volatility & Risk

HubSpot Inc. has a 1.71 beta, while its volatility is 71.00%, thus making it more volatile than Standard & Poor’s 500. Cheetah Mobile Inc.’s 114.00% more volatile than Standard & Poor’s 500 which is a result of the 2.14 beta.

Liquidity

HubSpot Inc. has a Current Ratio of 4 and a Quick Ratio of 4. Competitively, Cheetah Mobile Inc.’s Current Ratio is 3.3 and has 3.3 Quick Ratio. HubSpot Inc.’s better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than Cheetah Mobile Inc.

Analyst Recommendations

The Ratings and Recommendations for HubSpot Inc. and Cheetah Mobile Inc. are featured in the next table.

HubSpot Inc.’s average target price is $176.5, while its potential upside is 7.30%. Competitively the average target price of Cheetah Mobile Inc. is $5.8, which is potential 87.70% upside. Based on the analysts opinion we can conclude, Cheetah Mobile Inc. is looking more favorable than HubSpot Inc.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

The shares of both HubSpot Inc. and Cheetah Mobile Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 97.2% and 16.4% respectively. 6% are HubSpot Inc.’s share held by insiders. Competitively, Cheetah Mobile Inc. has 16.14% of it’s share held by insiders.

Performance

In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

For the past year HubSpot Inc. has 42.15% stronger performance while Cheetah Mobile Inc. has -46.64% weaker performance.

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.

Cheetah Mobile Inc. operates a platform that offers mobile and personal computer (PC) applications for its users and global content promotional channels. The companyÂ’s suite of utility applications optimizes mobile and PC Internet system performance and provides real time protection against known and unknown security threats. Its mobile and PC applications for users include Clean Master, a junk file cleaning, memory boosting, and privacy protection tool for mobile devices; CM Security, an anti-virus and security application for mobile devices; Battery Doctor, a power optimization tool for mobile devices; Cheetah Browser, a safe Web browser for PCs and mobile devices; CM Browser, a mobile browser; CM Launcher, a secure launcher that offers acceleration, secure protection, and stylish wallpapers, as well as automatically organizes mobile applications based on personal behavior; Photo Grid, a photo collage application that allows users to create professional looking collages of photos through an intuitive interface for mobile devices; CM Locker, a lightweight lock screen; and Duba Anti-virus, an Internet security application for PC and mobile devices. The company also offers content-driven applications comprising Live.me, a live video streaming application; and News Republic, a global mobile news service operator, as well as various products, which include mobile advertising publishing; mobile advertising platform; Duba.com personal start page that aggregates online resources and provides users access to their online destinations; Web and mobile games publishing; and cloud-based data analytics engines. It serves direct advertisers, including mobile application developers, mobile game developers, and e-commerce companies, as well as search engines. The company was formerly known as Kingsoft Internet Software Holdings Limited and changed its name to Cheetah Mobile Inc. in March 2014. Cheetah Mobile Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.