UiPath (NYSE:PATH) versus Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) Head-To-Head Comparison

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) and Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and profitability.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares UiPath and Elastic”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
UiPath	$1.61 billion	3.55	$282.33 million	$0.52	20.99
Elastic	$1.48 billion	3.82	-$108.11 million	($0.80)	-68.39

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

62.5% of UiPath shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Elastic shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.2% of UiPath shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Elastic shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for UiPath and Elastic, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
UiPath	1	14	3	0	2.11
Elastic	1	12	18	0	2.55

UiPath currently has a consensus price target of $14.07, indicating a potential upside of 28.87%. Elastic has a consensus price target of $89.80, indicating a potential upside of 64.13%. Given Elastic’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Elastic is more favorable than UiPath.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
UiPath	17.53%	5.69%	3.71%
Elastic	-5.04%	-2.34%	-0.84%

Risk & Volatility

UiPath has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elastic has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

UiPath beats Elastic on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About UiPath

UiPath Inc. provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers a suite of interrelated software to build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automation within the organization. Its platform's embedded AI, ML, and NLP capabilities improve decisioning and information processing; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; multi-tenant platform enterprise deployment with security and governance and Automation Cloud, which enables customers to begin automating without the need to provision infrastructure, install applications, or perform additional configurations; intuitive interface and low-code, drag-and-drop functionality; signed to enable people and automations to work together; and tracks, measures, and forecasts the performance of automations, enables customers to gain powerful insights and generate key performance indicators with actionable metric. It serves banking and financial services, healthcare, insurance, public sectors, manufacturing, retail, and telecom industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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.