Contrasting Rubrik (RBRK) & The Competition

Rubrik (NYSE:RBRK) is one of 954 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Rubrik to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, dividends and earnings.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

49.5% of Rubrik shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 13.7% of Rubrik shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Rubrik and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Rubrik	-16.50%	N/A	-8.45%
Rubrik Competitors	-612.30%	20.88%	-8.99%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Rubrik and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Rubrik	$1.54 billion	-$348.83 million	-98.24
Rubrik Competitors	$1.81 billion	$385.92 million	111.24

Rubrik’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Rubrik. Rubrik is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk and Volatility

Rubrik has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rubrik’s peers have a beta of 1.34, suggesting that their average stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Rubrik and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Rubrik	1	0	30	0	2.94
Rubrik Competitors	5715	21422	44678	1492	2.57

Rubrik presently has a consensus target price of $118.04, suggesting a potential downside of 4.64%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 27.68%. Given Rubrik’s peers higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Rubrik has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Summary

Rubrik peers beat Rubrik on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About Rubrik

Rubrik, Inc. provides data security solutions to individuals and businesses worldwide. The company offers enterprise data protection, unstructured data protection, cloud data protection, and SaaS data protection solutions; data threat analytics; data security posture; and cyber recovery solutions. It serves financial, retail, trade, transportation, energy, industrial, healthcare and life science, education, technology, media, communications, and public sectors. Rubrik, Inc. was formerly known as Scaledata, Inc. and changed its name to Rubrik, Inc. in October 2014. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Palo Alto, California.