SAP (NYSE:SAP) versus ZIM (OTCMKTS:ZIMCF) Financial Survey

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

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares SAP and ZIM”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SAP	$41.63 billion	4.80	$8.10 billion	$7.40	21.96
ZIM	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

SAP has higher revenue and earnings than ZIM.

Profitability

This table compares SAP and ZIM’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SAP	20.08%	17.31%	10.80%
ZIM	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for SAP and ZIM, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SAP	0	7	12	1	2.70
ZIM	0	0	0	0	0.00

SAP currently has a consensus target price of $283.40, suggesting a potential upside of 74.36%. Given SAP’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SAP is more favorable than ZIM.

Risk and Volatility

SAP has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ZIM has a beta of -0.24, suggesting that its share price is 124% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

SAP beats ZIM on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SAP

SAP SE, together with its subsidiaries, provides applications, technology, and services worldwide. It offers SAP S/4HANA that provides software capabilities for finance, risk and project management, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain and asset management, and research and development; SAP SuccessFactors solutions for human resources, including HR and payroll, talent and employee experience management, and people and workforce analytics; and spend management solutions that covers direct and indirect spend, travel and expense, and external workforce management. The company also provides SAP customer experience solutions; SAP Business Technology platform that enables customers and partners to build, integrate, and automate applications; and SAP Business Network, a business-to-business collaboration platform that helps digitalize key business processes across the supply chain and enables communication between trading partners. In addition, it offers SAP Signavio to help customers to discover, analyze, and understand their business process operations; SAP's industry cloud solutions that provides modular solutions addressing industry-specific functions; Taulia solutions for working capital management to help enable customers mitigate the effects of inflation by providing visibility into working capital and access to liquidity; and sustainability solutions and services. SAP SE was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.

About ZIM

ZIM Corporation provides software products and services for the database and mobile markets in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Singapore, and Austria. The company operates in two segments, Mobile and Enterprise Software. It develops and sells ZIM integrated development environment (IDE) software, an enterprise software for use in the design, development, and management of information databases and mission critical applications. The company’s ZIM IDE software provides an IDE for Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux computer operating systems. Its products are used to develop database applications in various industries, including finance, insurance, marketing, human resource, information, and records management. The company also provides migration services and management products; and short message services. ZIM Corporation was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.