Perion Network (NASDAQ:PERI – Get Free Report) and HashiCorp (NASDAQ:HCP – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Perion Network and HashiCorp”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Perion Network | $743.16 million | 0.53 | $117.41 million | $0.93 | 9.01 |
| HashiCorp | $583.14 million | 11.74 | -$190.67 million | ($0.75) | -44.99 |
Perion Network has higher revenue and earnings than HashiCorp. HashiCorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perion Network, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Insider & Institutional Ownership
68.1% of Perion Network shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of HashiCorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Perion Network shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.5% of HashiCorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Perion Network and HashiCorp’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Perion Network | 7.81% | 10.93% | 8.10% |
| HashiCorp | -23.69% | -10.54% | -7.74% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Perion Network and HashiCorp, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Perion Network | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.17 |
| HashiCorp | 0 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2.21 |
Perion Network currently has a consensus target price of $12.13, indicating a potential upside of 44.69%. HashiCorp has a consensus target price of $32.08, indicating a potential downside of 4.91%. Given Perion Network’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Perion Network is more favorable than HashiCorp.
Summary
Perion Network beats HashiCorp on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Perion Network
Perion Network Ltd. provides digital advertising solutions to brands, agencies, and publishers in North America, Europe, and internationally. It offers Wildfire, a content monetization platform; search monetization solutions, including website monetization, search mediation, and app monetization; and cross-channel digital advertising software as a service platform. The company also provides supply management platform; demand management platform for campaign planning and design; analytics platform, which provides information and performance insights; creative platform, a robust media platform; and an AI platform that uses machine learning to bring intelligence to the various phases of campaigns. In addition, it offers an actionable performance monitoring platform to support the various phases of campaign management; an online video player and integrated ad server to upload, manage, and stream video content; content monetization system, which integrates ads within the content layouts at the page level. Further, the company provides a publisher management system that provides analytics and performance optimization tools, as well as reports; search-demand management systems; monetization products that integrate and onboards demand vendors; and AI Systems. Additionally, it offers Intelligent HUB (iHUB), which connects the supply and demand sides of the marketplace; and strategic optimization of relevant traits (SORT), a provisional patent technology that eliminates the need for cookies. The company was formerly known as IncrediMail Ltd. and changed its name to Perion Network Ltd. in November 2011. Perion Network Ltd. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Holon, Israel.
About HashiCorp
HashiCorp, Inc. engages in the provision of multi-cloud infrastructure automation solutions worldwide. The company offers infrastructure provisioning products, including Terraform, that enables IT operations teams to apply an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, where processes and configuration required to support applications are codified and automated instead of being manual and ticket-based; Packer, that provides a consistent way to define the process of transforming the raw source inputs into a production worthy artifact, across any environment or packaging format; and Vagrant, that allows teams to define how development environments are set up. It also provides security products, such as Vault, a secrets management and data protection product, which enables security teams to apply policies based on application and user identity to govern access to credentials and secure sensitive data; and Boundary, that applies an identity-based approach to privileged access management and unifies the controls to a single system. In addition, the company offers Consul, an application-centric networking automation product that enables practitioners to manage application traffic, security teams to secure and restrict access between applications, and operations teams to automate the underlying network infrastructure; Nomad, a scheduler and workload orchestrator, which provides practitioners with a self-service interface to manage the application lifecycle; and Waypoint, an application delivery product that provides a developer-focused workflow for the build, deploy, and release process. Further, it provides HashiCorp Cloud Platform, a fully-managed cloud platform for multiple products to accelerate enterprise cloud migration by addressing resource and skills gaps, improving operational efficiency, and speeding up deployment time for customers. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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