Critical Analysis: Pazoo (OTCMKTS:PZOO) & Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR)

Pazoo (OTCMKTS:PZOO) and Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk and profitability.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Pazoo and Radware”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pazoo	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Radware	$274.88 million	3.24	$6.04 million	$0.14	151.36

Radware has higher revenue and earnings than Pazoo.

Volatility & Risk

Pazoo has a beta of -0.48, suggesting that its stock price is 148% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Radware has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Pazoo and Radware, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pazoo	0	0	0	0	0.00
Radware	0	1	1	0	2.50

Radware has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 41.58%. Given Radware’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Radware is more favorable than Pazoo.

Profitability

This table compares Pazoo and Radware’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pazoo	N/A	N/A	N/A
Radware	2.20%	3.81%	2.16%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

73.1% of Radware shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Pazoo shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.6% of Radware shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Radware beats Pazoo on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Pazoo

Pazoo, Inc. operates as a health and wellness company. It offers laboratory testing services for marijuana. Pazoo, Inc.was formerly known as IUCSS, Inc. and changed its name to Pazoo, Inc. in May 2011. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey.

About Radware

Radware Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets cyber security and application delivery solutions for cloud, on-premises, and software defined data centers worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Radware’s Core Business and The Hawks’ Business. It offers DefensePro provides automated DDoS protection; Radware Kubernetes, a web application firewall solution; and Cyber Controller, a unified solution for management, configuration, and attack lifecycle. The company also provides Alteon, an application delivery and security solution that manages application traffic across cloud and data center locations for optimizing availability and performance; and LinkProof NG, a multi-homing and enterprise gateway solution. In addition, it offers ERT Security Updates Subscription that provides protection from network elements, hosts, and applications; ERT Active Attackers Feed, a threat intelligence feed to protect against DDoS threats; ERT Protection Packages; Alteon Global Elastic License, a purchasing and deployment subscription; MSSP Portal, a DDoS detection and mitigation service portal; Location-based Mitigation that enables network traffic based on the geolocation mapping of IP subnets; and Cloud DDoS Protection Service, which offers a range of enterprise-grade DDoS protection services in the cloud. Further, the company provides Cloud Web DDoS Protection, Cloud WAF Service, Bot Manager, Cloud-Native Protector, and Cloud Application Protection Services, as well as technical support, professional, managed, and training and certification services. It sells its products primarily to independent distributors, including value added resellers, original equipment manufacturers, and system integrators. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.