Asana (NYSE:ASAN – Get Free Report) and MIND C.T.I. (NASDAQ:MNDO – Get Free Report) are both 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 Asana and MIND C.T.I.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Asana | -18.62% | -80.33% | -14.19% |
| MIND C.T.I. | 16.87% | 14.09% | 10.90% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
26.2% of Asana shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.3% of MIND C.T.I. shares are held by institutional investors. 87.5% of Asana 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.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Asana and MIND C.T.I., as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Asana | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2.07 |
| MIND C.T.I. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Asana presently has a consensus target price of $9.95, suggesting a potential downside of 17.49%. Given Asana’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Asana is more favorable than MIND C.T.I..
Risk & Volatility
Asana has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MIND C.T.I. has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Asana and MIND C.T.I.”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Asana | $790.81 million | 3.49 | -$189.02 million | ($0.66) | -18.28 |
| MIND C.T.I. | $19.46 million | 0.94 | $2.60 million | $0.16 | 5.66 |
MIND C.T.I. has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Asana. Asana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MIND C.T.I., indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Asana beats MIND C.T.I. on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Asana
Asana, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a work management platform for individuals, team leads, and executives in the United States and internationally. Its platform helps organizations to orchestrate work from daily tasks to cross-functional strategic initiatives; manage work across a portfolio of projects or workflows, see progress against goals, identify bottlenecks, resource constraints, and milestones; and communicate company-wide goals, monitor status, and oversee work across projects and portfolios to gain real-time insights. The company serves customers in various industries, such as technology, retail, education, non-profit, government, healthcare, hospitality, media, manufacturing, professional services, and financial services. The company was formerly known as Smiley Abstractions, Inc. and changed its name to Asana, Inc. in July 2009. Asana, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
About MIND C.T.I.
MIND C.T.I. Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops, markets, sells, and implements billing and customer care software solutions for communication service providers in the Americas, Europe, Israel, the Asia Pacific, and Africa. It operates in two segments, Billing and Related Services, and Messaging. The company offers billing and customer care solutions that support various services, such as voice, data, and content services, as well as prepaid, postpaid, and pay-in-advance payment models in a single platform. Its solutions also include a workflow engine to support the implementation of business processes, including subscriber registration, order management, trouble ticket, and debt collection; and a point of sale solution that covers dealer, store and cashier management, and sales cycle related activities. In addition, the company offers professional services comprising turnkey project delivery, customer support and maintenance, integration, customizations, and project management; and managed services, including day to day billing operational tasks. Further, it provides PhonEX ONE, a call management system that collects, records, and stores call information, which is used by organizations for telecom expense management, call accounting, traffic analysis, and fraud detection; and a mobile messaging platform. The company offers its products directly, as well as through distributors and resellers primarily to communication service providers, such as traditional wireline and wireless, voice over IP, broadband IP network operators, wireless internet service providers, LTE operators, cable operators, and mobile virtual network operators. MIND C.T.I. Ltd. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Yokneam Illit, Israel.
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