Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE – Get Free Report) and CyberArk Software (NASDAQ:CYBR – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Risk and Volatility
Backblaze has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CyberArk Software has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Backblaze and CyberArk Software”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Backblaze | $127.63 million | 2.25 | -$59.71 million | ($1.01) | -5.24 |
| CyberArk Software | $1.10 billion | 15.74 | -$93.46 million | ($1.86) | -187.79 |
Backblaze has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CyberArk Software. CyberArk Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Backblaze, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent recommendations for Backblaze and CyberArk Software, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Backblaze | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3.00 |
| CyberArk Software | 0 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 3.00 |
Backblaze presently has a consensus target price of $10.83, indicating a potential upside of 104.79%. CyberArk Software has a consensus target price of $415.71, indicating a potential upside of 19.02%. Given Backblaze’s higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Backblaze is more favorable than CyberArk Software.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
54.0% of Backblaze shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of CyberArk Software shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Backblaze shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of CyberArk Software shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Backblaze and CyberArk Software’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Backblaze | -37.13% | -100.67% | -34.41% |
| CyberArk Software | -9.34% | 0.45% | 0.24% |
Summary
CyberArk Software beats Backblaze on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Backblaze
Backblaze, Inc., a storage cloud platform, provides businesses and consumers cloud services to store, use, and protect data in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud services through a web-scale software infrastructure built on commodity hardware. It also provides Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, which enables customers to store data, developers to build applications, and partners to expand their use cases. This service is offered as a consumption-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and serves use cases, such as public, hybrid, and multi-cloud data storage; application development and DevOps; content delivery and edge computing; security and ransomware protection; media management; backup, archive, and tape replacement; repository for analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning; and Internet of Things. In addition, the company offers Backblaze Computer Backup that automatically backs up data from laptops and desktops for businesses and individuals, which provides a subscription-based Software-as-a-Service and serves use cases, including computer backup, ransomware protection, theft and loss protection, and remote access. It serves the public cloud IaaS storage and Data-Protection-as-a-Service markets. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
About CyberArk Software
CyberArk Software Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops, markets, and sells software-based identity security solutions and services in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. Its solutions include Privileged Access Manager, which offers risk-based credential security and session; Vendor Privileged Access Manager combines Privileged Access Manager and Remote Access to provide secure access to third-party vendors; Dynamic Privileged Access, a SaaS solution that provides just-in-time access to Linux Virtual Machines; Endpoint Privilege Manager, a SaaS solution that secures privileges on the endpoint; and Secure Desktop, a solution that protects access to endpoints. The company also provides workforce identity, which offers adaptive multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on, secure web sessions, workforce password management, application gateway, identity lifecycle management, and directory services; and customer identity services that provides authentication and authorization services, MFA, directory, and user management. In addition, it offers Secrets Manager Credential Providers to provide and manage the credentials used by third-party solutions; Conjur Enterprise and Conjur Cloud, which offers a secrets management solution for specific requirements; Secrets Hub, a centralized visibility and management platform; Cloud Security solutions; Identity Management solutions, including lifecycle management, identity flows, identity compliance, and directory services; and Secure Browser. The company serves financial services, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, energy and utilities, transportation, retail, technology, and telecommunications industries; and government agencies. The company was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel.
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