SailPoint (NASDAQ:SAIL) and Asana (NYSE:ASAN) Financial Survey

SailPoint (NASDAQ:SAIL) and Asana (NYSE:ASAN) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for SailPoint and Asana, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
SailPoint	3	3	15	3	2.75
Asana	5	7	4	1	2.06

SailPoint presently has a consensus price target of $25.66, indicating a potential upside of 19.40%. Asana has a consensus price target of $16.10, indicating a potential upside of 14.83%. Given SailPoint’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SailPoint is more favorable than Asana.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

26.2% of Asana shares are owned by institutional investors. 61.3% of Asana shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
SailPoint	$861.61 million	13.88	-$315.83 million	($4.21)	-5.10
Asana	$723.88 million	4.58	-$255.54 million	($0.89)	-15.75

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

Profitability

This table compares SailPoint and Asana’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
SailPoint	N/A	-2.04%	-0.50%
Asana	-27.50%	-83.88%	-22.07%

Summary

SailPoint beats Asana on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About SailPoint

SailPoint, Inc. delivers solutions to enable comprehensive identity security for the enterprise. Its solutions enable organizations to establish, control, and automate policies that help them define and maintain a robust security posture and achieve regulatory compliance. The company was founded by Mark David McClain in 2005 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

About Asana

Asana, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a work management platform for individuals, team leads, and executives in the United States and internationally. Its platform helps organizations to orchestrate work from daily tasks to cross-functional strategic initiatives; manage work across a portfolio of projects or workflows, see progress against goals, identify bottlenecks, resource constraints, and milestones; and communicate company-wide goals, monitor status, and oversee work across projects and portfolios to gain real-time insights. The company serves customers in various industries, such as technology, retail, education, non-profit, government, healthcare, hospitality, media, manufacturing, professional services, and financial services. The company was formerly known as Smiley Abstractions, Inc. and changed its name to Asana, Inc. in July 2009. Asana, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.