HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) and Commvault Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CVLT) have been rivals in the Application Software for quite some time. Below is a review of each business including various aspects such as analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| HubSpot Inc. | 512.98M | 13.05 | 63.83M | -1.66 | 0.00 |
| Commvault Systems Inc. | 714.44M | 4.12 | 4.06M | -0.06 | 0.00 |
Table 1 highlights HubSpot Inc. and Commvault Systems Inc.’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 shows HubSpot Inc. and Commvault Systems Inc.’s return on assets, return on equity and net margins.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| HubSpot Inc. | -12.44% | -27.7% | -8.2% |
| Commvault Systems Inc. | 0.57% | 1% | 0.5% |
Risk and Volatility
HubSpot Inc. has a 1.91 beta, while its volatility is 91.00%, thus making it more volatile than Standard and Poor’s 500. From a competition point of view, Commvault Systems Inc. has a 1.23 beta which is 23.00% more volatile compared to Standard and Poor’s 500.
Liquidity
The current Quick Ratio of HubSpot Inc. is 3 while its Current Ratio is 3. Meanwhile, Commvault Systems Inc. has a Current Ratio of 2 while its Quick Ratio is 2. HubSpot Inc. is better positioned to pay off its short-term and long-term debts than Commvault Systems Inc.
Analyst Ratings
HubSpot Inc. and Commvault Systems Inc. Ratings and Recommendations are available on the next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| HubSpot Inc. | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2.50 |
| Commvault Systems Inc. | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
$172.14 is HubSpot Inc.’s average price target while its potential upside is 5.89%.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
Institutional investors held 95.7% of HubSpot Inc. shares and 92.5% of Commvault Systems Inc. shares. 6.2% are HubSpot Inc.’s share held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% are Commvault Systems Inc.’s share held by insiders.
Performance
In this table we show 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% |
| Commvault Systems Inc. | -0.67% | 0.68% | 13.05% | -4.08% | 28.17% | 12.57% |
For the past year HubSpot Inc. has stronger performance than Commvault Systems Inc.
Summary
Commvault Systems Inc. beats on 7 of the 11 factors 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.
Commvault Systems, Inc. provides data and information management software applications and related services in the United States and internationally. The companyÂ’s software suite contains solutions that are built on a single unified code base and platform to protect, manage, and access data and information. It offers data protection, backup, and recovery software solutions that allow for the backup of databases, files, applications, endpoints, and virtual machines with according to data type and recovery profile; and help to optimize storage with deduplication, recover data, and leverage reports to improve backup and recovery processes. The company also provides cloud and infrastructure management software solutions that provide a way to manage storage hardware and virtual infrastructure; and retention and compliance software solutions that provide content based retention, enterprise search and e-discovery, email archiving, data loss prevention, and secure file sharing services. In addition, it offers customer support, consulting, assessment and design, installation, and training services, as well as implementation and post-deployment, and education services. The company sells its software and services directly to large enterprises, small and medium sized businesses, and government agencies, as well as indirectly through a network of value-added reseller partners, systems integrators, corporate resellers, and original equipment manufacturers. It licenses its software applications to customers in industries, such as banking, insurance and financial, government, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and medical, technology, legal, manufacturing, utilities, and energy. The company has strategic relationships with Atos, Cisco, Citrix, Fujitsu, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and VMware. Commvault Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.