Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) versus ReposiTrak (NYSE:TRAK) Critical Comparison

Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) and ReposiTrak (NYSE:TRAK) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Volatility & Risk

Elastic has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ReposiTrak has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Elastic and ReposiTrak’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Elastic	-5.04%	-2.34%	-0.84%
ReposiTrak	30.62%	14.52%	12.96%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

97.0% of Elastic shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.4% of ReposiTrak shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.7% of Elastic shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 41.0% of ReposiTrak shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Elastic and ReposiTrak, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Elastic	1	11	17	0	2.55
ReposiTrak	0	1	0	0	2.00

Elastic currently has a consensus target price of $95.25, suggesting a potential upside of 80.06%. Given Elastic’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Elastic is more favorable than ReposiTrak.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Elastic and ReposiTrak”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Elastic	$1.48 billion	3.69	-$108.11 million	($0.80)	-66.13
ReposiTrak	$22.61 million	7.17	$6.98 million	$0.37	24.08

ReposiTrak has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Elastic. Elastic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ReposiTrak, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

ReposiTrak beats Elastic on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Elastic

Elastic N.V., a data analytics company, delivers solutions designed to run in public or private clouds in multi-cloud environments. It primarily offers Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization on that data. The company's Elastic Stack product portfolio comprises Elasticsearch, a distributed, real-time search and analytics engine, and data store for various types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the Elastic Stack; Elastic Agent that offers integrated host protection and central management services; Beats, a single-purpose data shippers for sending data from edge machines to Elasticsearch or Logstash; and Logstash, a data processing pipeline for ingesting data into Elasticsearch or other storage systems from a multitude of sources simultaneously. It also provides software solutions on the Elastic Stack that address cases, including search applications, workplace search, logs, metrics, application performance monitoring, synthetic monitoring, security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint security, extended detection and response, and cloud security. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

About ReposiTrak

Park City Group, Inc., a software-as-a-service provider, designs, develops, and markets proprietary software products in North America. The company offers ReposiTrak MarketPlace, a supplier discovery and B2B e-commerce solution; ReposiTrak Compliance and Food Safety solutions, which reduces potential regulatory and legal risk from their supply chain partners; and ReposiTrak Supply Chain solutions that enables customers to manage relationships with suppliers. It also provides ScoreTracker, Vendor Managed Inventory, Store Level Ordering and Replenishment, Enterprise Supply Chain Planning, Fresh Market Manager, and ActionManager supply chain solutions to manage inventory, product mix, and labor. In addition, the company offers business-consulting services to suppliers and retailers in the grocery, convenience store, and specialty retail industries, as well as professional consulting services. It primarily serves multi-store retail chains, wholesalers and distributors, and their suppliers. The company is headquartered in Murray, Utah.