Financial Survey: BOX (BOX) vs. Its Peers

BOX (NYSE:BOX) is one of 953 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare BOX to similar businesses based on the strength of its profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares BOX and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BOX	10.59%	-20.97%	4.47%
BOX Competitors	-612.40%	21.13%	-8.86%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares BOX and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
BOX	$1.18 billion	$115.38 million	60.30
BOX Competitors	$1.80 billion	$386.69 million	109.20

BOX’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than BOX. BOX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for BOX and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BOX	1	4	3	0	2.25
BOX Competitors	5750	21539	44908	1497	2.57

BOX presently has a consensus price target of $39.80, indicating a potential downside of 4.34%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 29.07%. Given BOX’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BOX has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Risk and Volatility

BOX has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BOX’s competitors have a beta of 1.34, indicating that their average share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

86.7% of BOX shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of BOX shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

BOX competitors beat BOX on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

BOX Company Profile

Box, Inc. engages in the provision of an enterprise content platform that enables organizations to securely manage enterprise content while allowing easy, secure access and sharing of this content from anywhere, on any device. Its products include cloud content management, IT and admin controls, Box Governance, Box Zones, Box Relay, Box Shuttle, and Box KeySafe. The company was founded by Aaron Levie, Dylan Smith, Jeff Queisser, and Sam Ghods in March 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.