N-able (NYSE:NABL – Get Free Report) and Mitek Systems (NASDAQ:MITK – Get Free Report) are both small-cap technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk and earnings.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
96.3% of N-able shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.6% of Mitek Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of N-able shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Mitek Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for N-able and Mitek Systems, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| N-able | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Mitek Systems | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.00 |
Profitability
This table compares N-able and Mitek Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| N-able | -0.88% | 3.55% | 2.04% |
| Mitek Systems | 11.39% | 19.16% | 11.32% |
Risk & Volatility
N-able has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mitek Systems has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares N-able and Mitek Systems”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| N-able | $511.43 million | 1.50 | -$18.82 million | ($0.02) | -202.75 |
| Mitek Systems | $197.90 million | 4.30 | $8.80 million | $0.47 | 40.13 |
Mitek Systems has lower revenue, but higher earnings than N-able. N-able is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mitek Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Mitek Systems beats N-able on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About N-able
N-able, Inc. provides cloud-based software solutions for managed service providers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company's solutions enable MSPs to support digital transformation and growth within small and medium-sized enterprises. It provides software platform designed to be an integrated, enterprise-grade solution that serves as an operating system for its MSP partners and scales as their businesses grow. In addition, the company offers remote monitoring and management solutions provide MSP partners with visibility and insights into the availability and performance of their customers' networks, infrastructure, devices and applications through a centralized dashboard; data protection as-a-service solutions, such as backup and disaster recovery for servers, virtual machines, workstations, files, data, and key cloud-based applications, as well as multi-tenant platform and secure remote delivery architecture. Further, it offers security services through patch management, endpoint security, managed detection and response, web protection, e-mail security, and archiving and vulnerability assessment solutions. Additionally, the company engages in professional services automation, automation and scripting management, password management policies and reporting, and analytics. N-able, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
About Mitek Systems
Mitek Systems, Inc. provides mobile image capture and digital identity verification solutions worldwide. Its product portfolio includes Mobile Deposit that enables individuals and businesses to remotely deposit checks using their camera-equipped smartphone or tablet; Mobile Verify, an identity verification solution that is integrated into mobile apps, mobile websites, and desktop applications; and Mobile Fill, which includes automatic image capture, minimizes the numbers of clicks, and expedites form fill completion. The company also offers MiSnap, a mobile-capture software development kit that enables an intuitive user experience and instant capture of quality images of identity documents and checks. CheckReader enables financial institutions to automatically extract data from checks once they have been scanned or photographed by the application; Check Fraud Defender, an AI-powered and cloud-hosted model for fighting check fraud; and Check Intelligence that enables financial institutions to automatically extract data from a check image received across any deposit channel, including branch, ATM, remote deposit capture, and mobile. In addition, it provides MiVIP, an end-to-end KYC platform that allows companies to design, build, and deploy robust KYC journeys with little or no development resources; and MiPass provides protection against most sophisticated forms of identity theft and dangerous fraud techniques, such as deepfakes and synthetic identities. Further, the company provides ID_CLOUD, an automated identity verification solution that is integrated into a customers’ application to read and validate identity documents; IDLive Face, a passive facial liveness detection product; IDVoice, a robust AI-driven voice biometric engine; IDLive Voice to stop spoofing attacks on voice biometric systems; and IDLive Doc that works to fight fraud related to digitally displayed document images. The company was incorporated in 1986 and is based in San Diego, California.
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