Analyzing Hub Cyber Security (NASDAQ:HUBC) & Cycurion (NASDAQ:CYCU)

Hub Cyber Security (NASDAQ:HUBC) and Cycurion (NASDAQ:CYCU) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and valuation.

Risk & Volatility

Hub Cyber Security has a beta of -0.9, meaning that its stock price is 190% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cycurion has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Hub Cyber Security and Cycurion’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hub Cyber Security	N/A	N/A	N/A
Cycurion	-108.49%	-123.25%	-53.74%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

4.7% of Hub Cyber Security shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Cycurion shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of Hub Cyber Security shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.7% of Cycurion shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Hub Cyber Security and Cycurion, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hub Cyber Security	1	0	0	0	1.00
Cycurion	1	1	1	0	2.00

Cycurion has a consensus price target of $7.00, suggesting a potential upside of 676.57%. Given Cycurion’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cycurion is more favorable than Hub Cyber Security.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Hub Cyber Security and Cycurion”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hub Cyber Security	$29.56 million	0.01	-$39.76 million	N/A	N/A
Cycurion	$14.53 million	0.34	-$23.67 million	($7.17)	-0.13

Cycurion has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hub Cyber Security.

Summary

Cycurion beats Hub Cyber Security on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Hub Cyber Security

HUB Cyber Security Ltd. provides cyber security solutions in Israel and internationally. The company offers HUB Secure File Vault, a super charged managed file transfer backed by dedicated hardware driven security, which creates a secure enclave to protect the organization's data driven workflows; HUB Guard, a recurring security assessment, continuous network, and infrastructure monitoring and analysis, and planned incident response; D.Storm, a powerful SaaS DDoS simulation platform; RAM Commander, a software tool for reliability prediction and analysis, reliability block diagram, Markov chains analysis, maintainability prediction, spares optimization, FMEA/FMECA, testability, fault tree analysis, event tree analysis, and safety assessment; and Safety Commander designs to evaluate the safety of highly integrated systems in a model-based design environment. It also provides complementary trusted advisory and professional service facilitating cyber risk assessment, cyber risk mitigation, cyber incident response, quality reliability, and safety of critical systems. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

About Cycurion

Cycurion is a global leading provider of Network Communications and Information Technology Security Solutions. Our mission is to develop and deliver world-class, cutting-edge solutions for our clients, regardless of size or complication, expressly optimizing your IT environment to meet the business need and to keep projects on track and on budget.