Bridgeline Digital (NASDAQ:BLIN – Get Free Report) and CyberAgent (OTCMKTS:CYGIY – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
15.1% of Bridgeline Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 23.5% of Bridgeline Digital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Bridgeline Digital and CyberAgent, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Bridgeline Digital | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| CyberAgent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Volatility and Risk
Bridgeline Digital has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CyberAgent has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Bridgeline Digital and CyberAgent’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Bridgeline Digital | -16.37% | -25.40% | -15.73% |
| CyberAgent | 3.62% | 14.04% | 7.00% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Bridgeline Digital and CyberAgent”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Bridgeline Digital | $15.38 million | 0.58 | -$2.52 million | ($0.26) | -2.82 |
| CyberAgent | $5.86 billion | 0.79 | $212.18 million | $0.20 | 22.85 |
CyberAgent has higher revenue and earnings than Bridgeline Digital. Bridgeline Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CyberAgent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
CyberAgent beats Bridgeline Digital on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Bridgeline Digital
Bridgeline Digital, Inc. operates as a marketing technology company in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company offers HawkSearch, a site search, recommendation, and personalization application for marketers, merchandisers, and developers; Celebros Search, a commerce-oriented site search product that provides natural language processing with artificial intelligence; and Woorank, a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) audit tool that generates an instant performance audit of the site's technical, on-page, and off-page SEO. It also provides Bridgeline TruPresence, a web content management and eCommerce platform to support the needs of multi-unit organizations and franchises; Bridgeline Unbound, a technology suite that empower marketers to easily manage their digital experiences and create personalized customer journeys; and OrchestraCMS, a digital experience platform that enables development of custom solutions, third-party integrations, and delivery of digital transformation initiatives on the Salesforce platform. In addition, the company offers digital engagement services comprising digital strategy, web design and web development, usability engineering, information architecture, and SEO, as well as hosting services. It serves vertical markets, such as industrial distributors and wholesalers, franchises and enterprises, manufacturers, eCommerce retailers, health services and life sciences, technology, credit unions and banks, and associations and foundations through its direct sales force. The company was formerly known as Bridgeline Software, Inc. Bridgeline Digital, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.
About CyberAgent
CyberAgent, Inc. engages in the media, internet advertising, game, and investment development businesses primarily in Japan. The company operates Ameba, a blog service; Tapple for online dating; AWA, a music streaming service; and WinTicket for online betting. It also offers internet advertising agency and ad technology services; and smartphone games. In addition, the company operates a programming school for kids and provides application and reward points exchange platform services; artificial intelligence services; and digital transformation services. CyberAgent, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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