Tenable (NASDAQ:TENB) and Livento Group (OTCMKTS:NUGN) Critical Review

Livento Group (OTCMKTS:NUGN) and Tenable (NASDAQ:TENB) are both multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.4% of Livento Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Tenable shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of Tenable shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Livento Group and Tenable, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Livento Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Tenable	0	7	8	1	2.63

Tenable has a consensus price target of $49.67, suggesting a potential upside of 31.92%. Given Tenable’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Tenable is more favorable than Livento Group.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Livento Group and Tenable”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Livento Group	$2.01 million	1.30	-$6.55 million	N/A	N/A
Tenable	$900.02 million	5.03	-$36.30 million	($0.30)	-125.50

Livento Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Tenable.

Risk & Volatility

Livento Group has a beta of 5.42, meaning that its share price is 442% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenable has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Livento Group and Tenable’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Livento Group	43.58%	1.89%	1.73%
Tenable	-4.03%	-2.07%	-0.49%

Summary

Tenable beats Livento Group on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Livento Group

Livento Group, Inc. engages in the film and television production business. It is also involved in the artificial intelligence and machine learning technology business; development and licensing of Elisee, a software product that can capture data and create predictive behavior based on client inputs that assist the client in establishing its investment portfolio; and real estate finance and development activities. The company was formerly known as NuGene International, Inc. and changed its name to Livento Group, Inc. in June 2022. Livento Group, Inc. is headquartered in New York, New York.

About Tenable

Tenable Holdings, Inc. provides cyber exposure solutions for in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Japan. Its platforms include Tenable Vulnerability Management, a cloud-delivered software as a service that provides organizations with a risk-based view of traditional and modern attack surfaces; Tenable Cloud Security, a cloud-native cloud security solutions for security teams to continuously assess the security posture; Tenable Identity Exposure, a solution to secure Active Directory environments; Tenable Web App Scanning, which provides scanning for modern web applications; Tenable Lumin Exposure View, a measurement tool; Tenable Attack Surface Management, an external attack surface management solution; Tenable Security Center, an on-premises solution that provides a risk-based view of an organization’s IT, security and compliance posture; and Tenable OT Security, an operational technology security solution which provides threat detection, asset tracking, vulnerability management, and configuration control capabilities. The company also offers Nessus, a vulnerability assessment solution for cybersecurity industry and enterprise platform; and Nessus Expert, that enables users to programmatically detect cloud infrastructure misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in the design and build phase. Tenable Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.