Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) versus AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP) Critical Contrast

Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) and AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Zscaler	-1.58%	-0.75%	-0.20%
AppYea	N/A	N/A	-269.35%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

46.5% of Zscaler shares are held by institutional investors. 18.1% of Zscaler shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of AppYea shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

Zscaler has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AppYea has a beta of 2.13, indicating that its stock price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Zscaler and AppYea, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Zscaler	0	11	23	0	2.68
AppYea	0	0	0	0	0.00

Zscaler currently has a consensus target price of $225.47, suggesting a potential upside of 18.46%. Given Zscaler’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Zscaler is more favorable than AppYea.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Zscaler and AppYea”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Zscaler	$2.17 billion	13.47	-$57.71 million	($0.25)	-761.31
AppYea	N/A	N/A	-$1.82 million	N/A	N/A

AppYea has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Zscaler.

Summary

Zscaler beats AppYea on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About AppYea

AppYea, Inc., a digital health company, develops wearable monitoring solutions to treat sleep apnea and snoring. It develops AppySleep app, a wristband that monitors physiological parameters during sleep; AppySleep, a biofeedback snoring treatment wristband; AppySleep LAB, a smartphone medical application that monitors breathing patterns in the sleep and identify sleep arena episode without direct contact to the user; and AppySleep PRO a wristband for the treatment of sleep arena using biofeedback in combination with AppySleep LAB app. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Gan Yavne, Israel.