Reviewing Coursera (NYSE:COUR) & Data443 Risk Mitigation (OTCMKTS:ATDS)

Coursera (NYSE:COUR) and Data443 Risk Mitigation (OTCMKTS:ATDS) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends and earnings.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Coursera and Data443 Risk Mitigation”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Coursera	$704.87 million	2.04	-$79.53 million	($0.43)	-20.72
Data443 Risk Mitigation	$5.58 million	0.00	-$4.24 million	N/A	N/A

Data443 Risk Mitigation has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Coursera.

Risk and Volatility

Coursera has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Data443 Risk Mitigation has a beta of 42.58, suggesting that its share price is 4,158% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

89.6% of Coursera shares are held by institutional investors. 16.8% of Coursera shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.4% of Data443 Risk Mitigation shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Coursera and Data443 Risk Mitigation, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Coursera	2	3	7	0	2.42
Data443 Risk Mitigation	0	0	0	0	0.00

Coursera currently has a consensus target price of $9.31, suggesting a potential upside of 4.52%. Given Coursera’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Coursera is more favorable than Data443 Risk Mitigation.

Profitability

This table compares Coursera and Data443 Risk Mitigation’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Coursera	-11.45%	-9.42%	-6.15%
Data443 Risk Mitigation	-90.22%	N/A	-88.94%

Summary

Coursera beats Data443 Risk Mitigation on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Coursera

Coursera, Inc. operates an online educational content platform in the United States, Europe, Africa, the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and internationally. It operates in three segments: Consumer, Enterprise, and Degrees. The company offers guided projects, courses, and specializations, as well as online degrees; and certificates for entry-level professional, non-entry level professional, university, and MasterTrack. It offers its products to individuals, enterprise, business, campus, and government. The company was formerly known as Dkandu, Inc. and changed its name to Coursera, Inc. in April 2012. Coursera, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

About Data443 Risk Mitigation

Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. provides data security and privacy management solutions in the United States. The company offers Cyren Threat Intelligence Service that provides security, response, software, and services; Cyren Inbox Security for Microsoft 365, which prevents user access to malicious links and attachments; Ransomware Recovery Manager to recover a workstation upon infection to the last known business-operable state; Data Identification Manager, a data classification and governance technology; Data Archive Manager for enterprise data retention management and archiving; and Sensitive Content Manager, a cloud-based platform for managing, protecting, and distributing digital content. It also provides Data Placement Manager, a data transport, transformation, and delivery product; Access Control Manager that enables access controls across various platforms at scale for internal client systems and commercial public cloud platforms; Blockchain Protection Manager, which protects blockchain transactions from inadvertent disclosure and data leaks; and Global Privacy Manager, a privacy compliance and consumer loss mitigation platform. In addition, the company offers IntellyWP to enhance the user experience for content management platform; Chat History Scanner, which scans chat messages for compliance, security, personally identifiable information, personal information, payment card industry information, and custom keywords; and GDPR Framework, CCPA Framework, and LGPD Framework WordPress Plugins that enables organizations’ compliance on privacy rules and regulations. It serves the government, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology, and telecommunications sectors. The company was formerly known as LandStar, Inc. and changed its name to Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. in October 2019. Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.