Elastic (NYSE:ESTC – Get Free Report) and ReposiTrak (NYSE:TRAK – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Profitability
This table compares Elastic and ReposiTrak’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Elastic | -5.04% | -2.34% | -0.84% |
| ReposiTrak | 30.62% | 14.52% | 12.96% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Elastic and ReposiTrak, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Elastic | 1 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 2.55 |
| ReposiTrak | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Elastic and ReposiTrak”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Elastic | $1.48 billion | 3.75 | -$108.11 million | ($0.80) | -67.17 |
| ReposiTrak | $22.61 million | 6.92 | $6.98 million | $0.37 | 23.24 |
ReposiTrak has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Elastic. Elastic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ReposiTrak, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
97.0% of Elastic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.4% of ReposiTrak shares are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of Elastic shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.0% of ReposiTrak shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Risk & Volatility
Elastic has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ReposiTrak has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ReposiTrak beats Elastic on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Elastic
Elastic N.V., a data analytics company, delivers solutions designed to run in public or private clouds in multi-cloud environments. It primarily offers Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization on that data. The company's Elastic Stack product portfolio comprises Elasticsearch, a distributed, real-time search and analytics engine, and data store for various types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the Elastic Stack; Elastic Agent that offers integrated host protection and central management services; Beats, a single-purpose data shippers for sending data from edge machines to Elasticsearch or Logstash; and Logstash, a data processing pipeline for ingesting data into Elasticsearch or other storage systems from a multitude of sources simultaneously. It also provides software solutions on the Elastic Stack that address cases, including search applications, workplace search, logs, metrics, application performance monitoring, synthetic monitoring, security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint security, extended detection and response, and cloud security. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
About ReposiTrak
Park City Group, Inc., a software-as-a-service provider, designs, develops, and markets proprietary software products in North America. The company offers ReposiTrak MarketPlace, a supplier discovery and B2B e-commerce solution; ReposiTrak Compliance and Food Safety solutions, which reduces potential regulatory and legal risk from their supply chain partners; and ReposiTrak Supply Chain solutions that enables customers to manage relationships with suppliers. It also provides ScoreTracker, Vendor Managed Inventory, Store Level Ordering and Replenishment, Enterprise Supply Chain Planning, Fresh Market Manager, and ActionManager supply chain solutions to manage inventory, product mix, and labor. In addition, the company offers business-consulting services to suppliers and retailers in the grocery, convenience store, and specialty retail industries, as well as professional consulting services. It primarily serves multi-store retail chains, wholesalers and distributors, and their suppliers. The company is headquartered in Murray, Utah.
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