Both Sonic Foundry Inc. (OTCMKTS:SOFO) and Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:EIGI) compete on a level playing field in the Application Software industry. We will evaluate their performance with regards to institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Sonic Foundry Inc. | 34.54M | 0.17 | 12.42M | -0.89 | 0.00 |
| Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. | 1.15B | 0.88 | 4.53M | 0.02 | 296.67 |
Table 1 shows top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation of the two companies.
Profitability
Table 2 demonstrates the return on equity, return on assets and net margins of Sonic Foundry Inc. and Endurance International Group Holdings Inc.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Sonic Foundry Inc. | -35.96% | 0% | 0% |
| Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. | 0.39% | 2.9% | 0.2% |
Analyst Recommendations
Recommendations and Ratings for Sonic Foundry Inc. and Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. can be find in next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Sonic Foundry Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2.33 |
Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. on the other hand boasts of a $9.25 consensus target price and a 31.77% potential upside.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
Sonic Foundry Inc. and Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. has shares owned by institutional investors as follows: 13.14% and 99.2%. 38.41% are Sonic Foundry Inc.’s share owned by insiders. Competitively, insiders own roughly 2.9% of Endurance International Group Holdings Inc.’s shares.
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) | |
| Sonic Foundry Inc. | -6.09% | -10.74% | -18.18% | -44.62% | -59.09% | 66.15% |
| Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. | 0.85% | -12.1% | -14.83% | -26.6% | -2.47% | 7.07% |
For the past year Sonic Foundry Inc. has stronger performance than Endurance International Group Holdings Inc.
Summary
Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. beats Sonic Foundry Inc. on 11 of the 12 factors.
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud-based platform solutions for small-and medium-sized businesses worldwide. It offers Web hosting services, including entry-level shared hosting, and virtual private server and dedicated hosting solutions; Website building tools that enable subscribers with varying degrees of technical sophistication to create a Web presence; domain registration, management, and resale services; malware protection solutions to protect subscribersÂ’ Websites from viruses, malicious code, and other threats; and backup control solutions that enable subscribers to schedule, maintain, manage, and restore backups of their online data and Websites to meet their particular business needs, as well as Mojo Marketplace, online marketplace for WordPress themes, plugins, and other digital goods. The company also provides solutions that allow subscribers to have their Websites rendered on mobile devices; search engine optimization and marketing solutions; tools and services that enable subscribers to communicate with their customers and potential customers through social networks; and control panels and dashboards that enable subscribers to analyze activity on their Websites, optimize the impact of their Web presence design, and marketing campaigns. In addition, it offers a platform that enables subscribers to communicate with their customers and potential customers through email; email capabilities, including custom mailboxes that reflect a subscriberÂ’s domain name, spam filters, email aliases, and forwarding functionality; products that enable secure and encrypted payments, shopping carts, payment processing and related services, mobile payments, and other forms of e-commerce; platform that creates and manages digital storefront listings through one interface; and professional services. Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.