Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE – Get Free Report) and Nomura Research Institute (OTCMKTS:NRILY – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
54.0% of Backblaze shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Backblaze shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 61.1% of Nomura Research Institute shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Backblaze and Nomura Research Institute, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Backblaze | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2.70 |
| Nomura Research Institute | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2.33 |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Backblaze and Nomura Research Institute”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Backblaze | $145.84 million | 5.22 | -$25.61 million | ($0.34) | -36.21 |
| Nomura Research Institute | $5.41 billion | 3.27 | $100.70 million | $0.23 | 137.17 |
Nomura Research Institute has higher revenue and earnings than Backblaze. Backblaze is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nomura Research Institute, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk & Volatility
Backblaze has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nomura Research Institute has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Backblaze and Nomura Research Institute’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Backblaze | -13.07% | -16.73% | -7.10% |
| Nomura Research Institute | 2.41% | 4.38% | 2.08% |
Summary
Nomura Research Institute beats Backblaze on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Backblaze
Backblaze, Inc., a storage cloud platform, provides businesses and consumers cloud services to store, use, and protect data in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud services through a web-scale software infrastructure built on commodity hardware. It also provides Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, which enables customers to store data, developers to build applications, and partners to expand their use cases. This service is offered as a consumption-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and serves use cases, such as public, hybrid, and multi-cloud data storage; application development and DevOps; content delivery and edge computing; security and ransomware protection; media management; backup, archive, and tape replacement; repository for analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning; and Internet of Things. In addition, the company offers Backblaze Computer Backup that automatically backs up data from laptops and desktops for businesses and individuals, which provides a subscription-based Software-as-a-Service and serves use cases, including computer backup, ransomware protection, theft and loss protection, and remote access. It serves the public cloud IaaS storage and Data-Protection-as-a-Service markets. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
About Nomura Research Institute
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. provides consulting, financial information technology (IT) solution, industrial IT solution, and IT platform services in Japan and internationally. Its Consulting segment offers management, operational, and system consulting services for enterprises and government agencies. This segment also offers research, future projections, and recommendations to society, economics, business, technology, etc. The company's Financial IT Solutions segment provides system consulting, development, and management solutions, as well as shared online and BPO services for the financial institutions, including the securities, insurance, banking, asset management, and other financial sectors. Its Industrial IT Solutions segment offers system consulting, development, and management solutions, as well as shared online services primarily for the distribution, manufacturing, service, and public sectors. The company's IT Platform Services segment engages in the data center operation activities and construction of IT platforms and networks to the Financial IT and Industrial IT Solutions segments, as well as provides IT platform solutions and information security services to external clients. This segment is also involved in the research related to advance IT, etc. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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