Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) versus ReposiTrak (NYSE:TRAK) Financial Contrast

ReposiTrak (NYSE:TRAK) and Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares ReposiTrak and Elastic”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ReposiTrak	$22.61 million	7.17	$6.98 million	$0.37	24.08
Elastic	$1.48 billion	3.69	-$108.11 million	($0.80)	-66.13

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

Profitability

This table compares ReposiTrak and Elastic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ReposiTrak	30.62%	14.52%	12.96%
Elastic	-5.04%	-2.34%	-0.84%

Volatility & Risk

ReposiTrak has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elastic has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for ReposiTrak and Elastic, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ReposiTrak	0	1	0	0	2.00
Elastic	1	11	17	0	2.55

Elastic has a consensus price target of $95.25, suggesting a potential upside of 80.06%. Given Elastic’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Elastic is more favorable than ReposiTrak.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

27.4% of ReposiTrak shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Elastic shares are held by institutional investors. 41.0% of ReposiTrak shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Elastic shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

ReposiTrak beats Elastic on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ReposiTrak

Park City Group, Inc., a software-as-a-service provider, designs, develops, and markets proprietary software products in North America. The company offers ReposiTrak MarketPlace, a supplier discovery and B2B e-commerce solution; ReposiTrak Compliance and Food Safety solutions, which reduces potential regulatory and legal risk from their supply chain partners; and ReposiTrak Supply Chain solutions that enables customers to manage relationships with suppliers. It also provides ScoreTracker, Vendor Managed Inventory, Store Level Ordering and Replenishment, Enterprise Supply Chain Planning, Fresh Market Manager, and ActionManager supply chain solutions to manage inventory, product mix, and labor. In addition, the company offers business-consulting services to suppliers and retailers in the grocery, convenience store, and specialty retail industries, as well as professional consulting services. It primarily serves multi-store retail chains, wholesalers and distributors, and their suppliers. The company is headquartered in Murray, Utah.

About Elastic

Elastic N.V., a data analytics company, delivers solutions designed to run in public or private clouds in multi-cloud environments. It primarily offers Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization on that data. The company's Elastic Stack product portfolio comprises Elasticsearch, a distributed, real-time search and analytics engine, and data store for various types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the Elastic Stack; Elastic Agent that offers integrated host protection and central management services; Beats, a single-purpose data shippers for sending data from edge machines to Elasticsearch or Logstash; and Logstash, a data processing pipeline for ingesting data into Elasticsearch or other storage systems from a multitude of sources simultaneously. It also provides software solutions on the Elastic Stack that address cases, including search applications, workplace search, logs, metrics, application performance monitoring, synthetic monitoring, security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint security, extended detection and response, and cloud security. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.