Financial Contrast: Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) versus AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP)

Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) and AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Cloudflare and AppYea’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cloudflare	-3.72%	-5.65%	-1.34%
AppYea	-188,712.48%	-514.31%	-149.78%

Volatility and Risk

Cloudflare has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AppYea has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Cloudflare and AppYea”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cloudflare	$2.17 billion	38.30	-$102.27 million	($0.25)	-939.51
AppYea	$10,000.00	814.80	-$15.10 million	($0.03)	-0.41

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

82.7% of Cloudflare shares are held by institutional investors. 10.7% of Cloudflare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of AppYea shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for Cloudflare and AppYea, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cloudflare	3	7	21	0	2.58
AppYea	0	0	0	0	0.00

Cloudflare presently has a consensus price target of $241.35, indicating a potential upside of 2.75%. Given Cloudflare’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Cloudflare is more favorable than AppYea.

Summary

Cloudflare beats AppYea on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. operates as a cloud services provider that delivers a range of services to businesses worldwide. The company provides an integrated cloud-based security solution to secure a range of combination of platforms, including public cloud, private cloud, on-premise, software-as-a-service applications, and IoT devices; and website and application security products comprising web application firewall, bot management, distributed denial of service, API gateways, SSL/TLS encryption, script management, security center, and rate limiting products. It offers website and application performance solutions, including content delivery, load balancing, DNS, agro smart routing, video stream delivery, web optimization, cache reserve, cloudfare waiting room, and cloudfare data localization suite; SASE platform through cloudfare one that provides a cloud-based network-as-a-service; network services which deliver network connectivity, security, and performance, including magic WAN, magic transit, magic firewall, cloudflare network interconnect, and spectrum. In addition, the company provides zero trust services, such as cloudflare access, cloudflare gateway, remote browser isolation, cloud access security broker, cloud email security, and data loss prevention products that protects, inspects, and provides privilege rules to grant access to data and application. Further, it provides developer-based solutions consisting of cloudflare workers, R2 object storage, workers KV, durable objects, cloudfare pages, cloudfare stream, and cloudfare images; and consumer products comprising of 1.1.1.1, a DNS resolver, WARP, a virtual private network, and cloudfare registrar that secures registration and management of domain names. The company serves customers in the technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer and retail, industrial, and non-profit industries, as well as government. Cloudflare, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About AppYea

AppYea, Inc., a digital health company, develops wearable monitoring solutions to treat sleep apnea and snoring. It develops AppySleep app, a wristband that monitors physiological parameters during sleep; AppySleep, a biofeedback snoring treatment wristband; AppySleep LAB, a smartphone medical application that monitors breathing patterns in the sleep and identify sleep arena episode without direct contact to the user; and AppySleep PRO a wristband for the treatment of sleep arena using biofeedback in combination with AppySleep LAB app. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Gan Yavne, Israel.