ZIM (OTCMKTS:ZIMCF) & Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) Financial Review

Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) and ZIM (OTCMKTS:ZIMCF) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Salesforce and ZIM’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Salesforce	16.08%	12.94%	7.99%
ZIM	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

80.4% of Salesforce shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Salesforce shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 70.7% of ZIM shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Salesforce and ZIM”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Salesforce	$37.90 billion	6.62	$6.20 billion	$6.39	41.06
ZIM	N/A	N/A	-$60,000.00	N/A	N/A

Salesforce has higher revenue and earnings than ZIM.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Salesforce and ZIM, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Salesforce	3	8	27	4	2.76
ZIM	0	0	0	0	0.00

Salesforce currently has a consensus target price of $348.16, suggesting a potential upside of 32.68%. Given Salesforce’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Salesforce is more favorable than ZIM.

Summary

Salesforce beats ZIM on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Salesforce

Salesforce, Inc. provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology that brings companies and customers together worldwide. The company's service includes sales to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, gain insights through analytics and artificial intelligence, and deliver quotes, contracts, and invoices; and service that enables companies to deliver trusted and highly personalized customer support at scale. In addition, its platform offering comprise a flexible platform that enables companies of various sizes, locations, and industries to build business workflow and apps with customer; online learning platform that allows anyone to learn in-demand Salesforce skills; and Slack, an intelligent productivity platform. The company's marketing services enables companies to plan, personalize, automate, and optimize customer marketing journey, connecting interaction, and connected products; and commerce services, which empowers shopping experience across various customer touchpoint, such as mobile, web, social, and stores and provides click-to-code tools that offers customers to build and deploy solutions. Further, its analytics offering includes Tableau, an end-to-end analytics solution for range of enterprise use cases and intelligent analytics with AI models, spot trends, predict outcomes, creates summaries, timely recommendations, and take action from any device; and integration service including MuleSoft, which provides building blocks to deliver end-to-end and connected experiences. Additionally, the company provides data cloud, a hyperscale data engine native to Salesforce; vertical services to meet the needs of customers in industries, such as financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing and automotive and government; and offers salesforce starter for small and medium-sized businesses. Salesforce, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About ZIM

ZIM Corporation provides software products and services for the database and mobile markets in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Singapore, and Austria. The company operates in two segments, Mobile and Enterprise Software. It develops and sells ZIM integrated development environment (IDE) software, an enterprise software for use in the design, development, and management of information databases and mission critical applications. The company’s ZIM IDE software provides an IDE for Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux computer operating systems. Its products are used to develop database applications in various industries, including finance, insurance, marketing, human resource, information, and records management. The company also provides migration services and management products; and short message services. ZIM Corporation was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.