BroadVision (NASDAQ:BVSN) and Everbridge (NASDAQ:EVBG) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
4.0% of BroadVision shares are held by institutional investors. 34.5% of BroadVision shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Everbridge shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Risk and Volatility
BroadVision has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Everbridge has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares BroadVision and Everbridge’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BroadVision | $5.05 million | 3.08 | -$7.00 million | N/A | N/A |
| Everbridge | $147.09 million | 20.26 | -$47.51 million | ($1.43) | -61.68 |
BroadVision has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Everbridge.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent recommendations for BroadVision and Everbridge, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BroadVision | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Everbridge | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 2.75 |
Everbridge has a consensus price target of $98.09, indicating a potential upside of 11.21%. Given Everbridge’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Everbridge is more favorable than BroadVision.
Profitability
This table compares BroadVision and Everbridge’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BroadVision | 8.79% | -68.08% | -32.34% |
| Everbridge | -26.36% | -26.35% | -10.31% |
Summary
Everbridge beats BroadVision on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
BroadVision Company Profile
BroadVision, Inc. develops, markets, and supports enterprise portal applications that enable companies to unify their e-business infrastructure and conduct interactions and transactions with employees, partners, and customers through a personalized self-service model. The company offers business agility suite, a portal that provides personalized views of information and processes; commerce agility suite, an e-commerce system for transacting business on the Web; Clearvale, an enterprise social network solution; Clear, a human resources management system; QuickSilver, a publishing system for large and complex documents; and Vmoso, a cloud application for conducting virtual enterprise communications, mobile workgroup collaborations, and social business engagements. It also provides frameworks that offer portal services for organizing and presenting information; commerce services for transacting business on the Web; process services for transforming people-intensive processes and collaborations into Web-based self-service applications; content services for managing Web content throughout its lifecycle; staging services for moving content from development environment to production environment; search for full-text and field searching of online content and referenced external files with relevance ranking; unified stream services for unification and integration of information; event driven services to deliver notifications through various messaging platforms; and migration services for data moving across platforms. In addition, the company offers business consulting, implementation, integration and package, upgrade and migration, and performance tuning services; education, and support maintenance services; and Vmoso and Kukini developer toolkits, and Kona framework, as well as Vmoso Enterprise Transformation, a proprietary implementation approach for the Vmoso collaborative solution. BroadVision, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Everbridge Company Profile
Everbridge, Inc. operates as a software company in the United States and internationally. The company’s Critical Event Management, a software as a service based platform with various software applications that address tasks an organization has to perform to manage a critical event, including Mass Notification that enables enterprises and governmental entities to send notifications to individuals or groups to keep them informed before, during, and after natural or man-made disasters, and other emergencies; Safety Connection that enables organizations to send notifications based on last known location of an individual; Incident Management that enables organizations to automate workflows and make their communications relevant; and IT Alerting that enables IT professionals to alert and communicate with members of their teams during an IT incident or outage. Its software applications also include Visual Command Center that enables customers to monitor and integrate threat data, as well as information on internal incidents; Population Alerting that is used to reach international mobile populations; Community Engagement that integrates emergency management and community outreach; Crisis Commander that provides mobile access to crisis, recovery, and brand protection plans, as well as the capability to manage a crisis or event; and Secure Messaging that offers an alternative way for organization’s employees to communicate and share nonpublic information. The company provides customer support services. It serves enterprises, small businesses, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies in technology, energy, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, media and entertainment, retail, higher education, and professional services industries. The company was formerly known as 3n Global, Inc. and changed its name to Everbridge, Inc. in April 2009. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
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