CommVault Systems (NASDAQ:CVLT) and Fair Isaac (NYSE:FICO) Head to Head Comparison

Fair Isaac (NYSE:FICO) and CommVault Systems (NASDAQ:CVLT) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

85.8% of Fair Isaac shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of CommVault Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Fair Isaac shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of CommVault Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Fair Isaac and CommVault Systems”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Fair Isaac	$1.99 billion	10.88	$651.95 million	$34.62	28.97
CommVault Systems	$1.18 billion	4.91	$70.66 million	$1.57	89.31

Fair Isaac has higher revenue and earnings than CommVault Systems. Fair Isaac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CommVault Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Fair Isaac and CommVault Systems, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Fair Isaac	0	5	11	0	2.69
CommVault Systems	0	10	10	1	2.57

Fair Isaac presently has a consensus price target of $1,553.69, suggesting a potential upside of 54.89%. CommVault Systems has a consensus price target of $152.62, suggesting a potential upside of 8.85%. Given Fair Isaac’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Fair Isaac is more favorable than CommVault Systems.

Profitability

This table compares Fair Isaac and CommVault Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fair Isaac	34.05%	-32.51%	40.61%
CommVault Systems	5.62%	88.75%	5.59%

Risk & Volatility

Fair Isaac has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CommVault Systems has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Fair Isaac beats CommVault Systems on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Fair Isaac

Fair Isaac Corporation develops analytic, software, and digital decisioning technologies and services that enable businesses to automate, enhance, and connect decisions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates in two segments, Scores and Software. The Software segment provides pre-configured analytic and decision management solution designed for various business needs or processes, such as account origination, customer management, customer engagement, fraud detection, financial crimes compliance, and marketing, as well as associated professional services. This segment also offers FICO Platform, a modular software offering designed to support advanced analytic and decision use cases, as well as stand-alone analytic and decisioning software that can be configured by customers to address a wide range of business use cases. The Scores segment provides business-to-business scoring solutions and services for consumers that give clients access to predictive credit and other scores that can be integrated into their transaction streams and decision-making processes, as well as business-to-consumer scoring solutions comprising myFICO.com subscription offerings. It offers FICO Customer Analytics, FICO Responsible AI, FICO Advisors, FICO Business Outcome Simulator, FICO Forecaster, FICO TRIAD Customer Manager, FICO Blaze Advisor, FICO Xpress Optimization, FICO Falcon Fraud Manager, FICO Analytics Workbench, FICO Data Orchestrator, FICO DMP Streaming, FICO Decision Optimizer, and FICO Strategy Director, as well as software implementation and configuration services. The company markets its products and services primarily through its direct sales organization and indirect channels, as well as online. The company was formerly known as Fair Isaac & Company, Inc. and changed its name to Fair Isaac Corporation in July 1992. Fair Isaac Corporation was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana.

About CommVault Systems

Commvault Systems, Inc. provides data protection platform that helps customers to secure, defend, and recover their data in the United States and internationally. The company offers Commvault Backup and Recovery, a backup and recovery solution; Commvault Disaster Recovery, a replication and disaster recovery solution; Commvault Complete Data Protection, a data protection solution; and Metallic Data Protection as-a-service, which delivers enterprise-grade data protection as a service on a cloud platform, with advanced built-in security controls. It also provides Commvault HyperScale X, an easy-to-deploy scale-out solution; and Metallic Recovery Reserve, an easy button to adopt secure and scalable cloud storage in minutes. In addition, the company provides technology consulting, Ransomware recovery, education, and remote managed services. Further, it sells appliances that integrate the software with hardware for use in a range of business needs and use cases; and offers customer support, consulting, assessment and design, and installation services, as well as customer education and as-a-service under the Metallic brand. The company sells its products and services directly through its sales force, and indirectly through its network of distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, corporate resellers, and original equipment manufacturers to large enterprises, small or med-sized businesses, and government agencies. It supports customers in a range of industries, including banking, insurance and financial services, government, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and medical services, technology, legal, manufacturing, utilities, and energy. Commvault Systems, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.