CyberArk Software (NASDAQ:CYBR) & Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) Critical Contrast

Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) and CyberArk Software (NASDAQ:CYBR) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and profitability.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Snowflake and CyberArk Software”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Snowflake	$3.63 billion	14.41	-$836.10 million	($3.87)	-40.89
CyberArk Software	$1.00 billion	17.25	-$93.46 million	($1.95)	-179.12

CyberArk Software has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Snowflake. CyberArk Software is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Snowflake, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Snowflake has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CyberArk Software has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Snowflake and CyberArk Software, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Snowflake	0	9	30	2	2.83
CyberArk Software	0	1	25	2	3.04

Snowflake currently has a consensus price target of $200.27, indicating a potential upside of 26.55%. CyberArk Software has a consensus price target of $415.18, indicating a potential upside of 18.86%. Given Snowflake’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Snowflake is more favorable than CyberArk Software.

Profitability

This table compares Snowflake and CyberArk Software’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Snowflake	-33.02%	-24.23%	-13.30%
CyberArk Software	-9.34%	0.45%	0.24%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

65.1% of Snowflake shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of CyberArk Software shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of Snowflake shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of CyberArk Software shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

CyberArk Software beats Snowflake on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Snowflake

Snowflake Inc. provides a cloud-based data platform for various organizations in the United States and internationally. Its platform offers Data Cloud, which enables customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful business insights, build data-driven applications, and share data and data products, as well as applies artificial intelligence (AI) for solving business problems. The company was formerly known as Snowflake Computing, Inc. and changed its name to Snowflake Inc. in April 2019. Snowflake Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Bozeman, Montana.

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.