Financial Review: SaverOne 2014 (NASDAQ:SVRE) and Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS)

SaverOne 2014 (NASDAQ:SVRE) and Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares SaverOne 2014 and Zscaler’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SaverOne 2014	N/A	N/A	N/A
Zscaler	-3.62%	-5.84%	-1.36%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares SaverOne 2014 and Zscaler’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SaverOne 2014	$710,000.00	N/A	-$9.19 million	N/A	N/A
Zscaler	$1.62 billion	18.45	-$202.34 million	($0.51)	-387.00

SaverOne 2014 has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Zscaler.

Volatility and Risk

SaverOne 2014 has a beta of 2.28, suggesting that its stock price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zscaler has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

4.9% of SaverOne 2014 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.5% of Zscaler shares are held by institutional investors. 19.2% of Zscaler shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for SaverOne 2014 and Zscaler, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SaverOne 2014	0	0	0	0	N/A
Zscaler	0	6	27	1	2.85

Zscaler has a consensus price target of $225.21, suggesting a potential upside of 14.10%. Given Zscaler’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Zscaler is more favorable than SaverOne 2014.

Summary

Zscaler beats SaverOne 2014 on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SaverOne 2014

SaverOne 2014 Ltd, a technology company, engages in the design, development, and commercialization of transportation and safety solutions to save lives by preventing car accidents. The company is developing SaverOne Driver Distraction Prevention Solution system, an advanced driver safety solution that can identify and monitor mobile phones located in the driver's vicinity and selectively block use of life-threatening applications; and solutions for detection of vulnerable road users. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel.

About Zscaler

Zscaler, Inc. operates as a cloud security company worldwide. The company offers Zscaler Internet Access solution that provides users, workloads, IoT, and OT devices secure access to externally managed applications, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and internet destinations; and Zscaler Private Access solution, which is designed to provide access to managed applications hosted internally in data centers, and private or public clouds. It also provides Zscaler Digital Experience that measures end-to-end user experience across business applications, as well as provides an easy-to-understand digital experience score for each user, application, and location within an enterprise. In addition, the company offers Posture Control solutions comprising Cloud Security Posture Management that identifies and remediates application misconfigurations in SaaS, infrastructure as a service, and PaaS to reduce risk and ensure compliance with industry and organizational benchmarks; Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management that detects and remediates excessive or unused cloud permissions and enforces least privileged access without disrupting productivity; Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which analyzes IaC templates to identify misconfigurations and other security issues prior to deployment to cloud infrastructure; and Vulnerability Scanning and Data Loss Prevention solutions. Its platform modules include Zscaler Central Authority, Zscaler Enforcement Node, and Zscaler Log Servers. The company serves customers in airlines and transportation, conglomerates, consumer goods and retail, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and communications, public sector and education, technology, and telecommunications services industries. The company was formerly known as SafeChannel, Inc., and changed its name to Zscaler, Inc. in August 2008. Zscaler, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.