Celerity Solutions (OTCMKTS:CLTY) vs. Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) Financial Analysis

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Celerity Solutions	N/A	N/A	N/A
Salesforce	16.87%	13.27%	8.21%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

80.4% of Salesforce shares are owned by institutional investors. 32.3% of Celerity Solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Salesforce shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Celerity Solutions and Salesforce, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Celerity Solutions	0	0	0	0	0.00
Salesforce	1	13	25	0	2.62

Salesforce has a consensus price target of $325.23, suggesting a potential upside of 27.58%. Given Salesforce’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Salesforce is more favorable than Celerity Solutions.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Celerity Solutions and Salesforce”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Celerity Solutions	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Salesforce	$37.90 billion	6.40	$6.20 billion	$6.88	37.05

Salesforce has higher revenue and earnings than Celerity Solutions.

Summary

Salesforce beats Celerity Solutions on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Celerity Solutions

Celerity Solutions, Inc. provides enterprise applications solutions. The company offers its applications in various areas, such as finance, human capital management, manufacturing, mergers and acquisitions, sales operations efficiency, supply chain, utilities, and Web retail. Celerity Solutions, Inc. was incorporated in 1982 and is based in Redwood City, California.

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.