Proofpoint Inc. (NASDAQ:PFPT) and Bridgeline Digital Inc. (NASDAQ:BLIN), both competing one another are Application Software companies. We will compare their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Proofpoint Inc. | 716.99M | 8.92 | 103.75M | -1.89 | 0.00 |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | 13.57M | 0.25 | 7.53M | -1.63 | 0.00 |
Table 1 highlights Proofpoint Inc. and Bridgeline Digital Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 demonstrates the return on assets, return on equity and net margins of Proofpoint Inc. and Bridgeline Digital Inc.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Proofpoint Inc. | -14.47% | -26.6% | -8.7% |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | -55.49% | -72.8% | -43% |
Volatility & Risk
A 1.46 beta indicates that Proofpoint Inc. is 46.00% more volatile compared to S&P 500. Competitively, Bridgeline Digital Inc. is 9.00% less volatile than S&P 500, because of the 0.91 beta.
Liquidity
0.7 and 0.7 are the respective Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Proofpoint Inc. Its rival Bridgeline Digital Inc.’s Current and Quick Ratios are 1 and 1 respectively. Bridgeline Digital Inc. has a better chance of clearing its pay short and long-term debts than Proofpoint Inc.
Analyst Ratings
Proofpoint Inc. and Bridgeline Digital Inc. Ratings and Recommendations are available in the next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Proofpoint Inc. | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2.88 |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
The average target price of Proofpoint Inc. is $111.13, with potential downside of -4.14%.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Institutional investors held 0% of Proofpoint Inc. shares and 3% of Bridgeline Digital Inc. shares. About 0.5% of Proofpoint Inc.’s share are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.02% are Bridgeline Digital Inc.’s share held by insiders.
Performance
In this table we provide the Week, Month, Quarter, Half Year, Year and YTD Performance of both pretenders.
| Performance (W) | Performance (M) | Performance (Q) | Performance (HY) | Performance (Y) | Performance (YTD) | |
| Proofpoint Inc. | -4.69% | -0.79% | -20.77% | -23.87% | 7.14% | 4.11% |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | -11.37% | -21.47% | -70.17% | -74.36% | -86.57% | -87.22% |
For the past year Proofpoint Inc. has 4.11% stronger performance while Bridgeline Digital Inc. has -87.22% weaker performance.
Summary
Proofpoint Inc. beats on 8 of the 11 factors Bridgeline Digital 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.
Bridgeline Digital, Inc. operates as a digital engagement company in the United States. The companyÂ’s iAPPS platform enables companies and developers to create Websites, Web applications, and online stores. It offers iAPPS Experience Manager, a marketing automation engine and content management system; iAPPS Content Manager that enables non-technical users to create, edit, and publish content via a browser-based interface; and iAPPS Commerce, an online B2B and B2C e-commerce solution, which allows users to manage domestic and international commerce initiatives. The company also provides iAPPS Marketier, an online marketing management solution that helps marketers drive to their sites through personalized and targeted marketing automation flows; and iAPPS Analyzer to manage, measure, and optimize Web properties by recording detailed events and mining data for statistical analysis. In addition, it offers iAPPS Social, a social media management solution that empowers customers to set up customized watch lists; and iAPPSds, a Web content management and e-commerce platform to multi-unit organizations and franchises. Further, the company provides digital strategy, Web design and development, usability engineering, information architecture, and search engine optimization services; co-location, application monitoring, emergency response, version control, load balancing, managed firewall security, and virus protection services; and shared, dedicated, and Software as a Service hosting services. It serves vertical markets, such as financial services, franchises/multi-unit organizations, retail brand names, health services and life sciences, technology, credit unions and regional banks, and associations and foundations through its direct sales force. The company was formerly known as Bridgeline Software, Inc. and changed its name to Bridgeline Digital, Inc. in March 2010. Bridgeline Digital, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
