Intrusion (NASDAQ:INTZ – Get Free Report) and Elastic (NYSE:ESTC – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and risk.
Volatility & Risk
Intrusion has a beta of -1.57, indicating that its stock price is 257% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elastic has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Intrusion and Elastic”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Intrusion | $7.09 million | 2.25 | -$9.06 million | ($0.55) | -1.18 |
| Elastic | $1.74 billion | 4.98 | $367.77 million | $3.50 | 23.80 |
Elastic has higher revenue and earnings than Intrusion. Intrusion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elastic, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Intrusion and Elastic, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Intrusion | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Elastic | 0 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 2.57 |
Intrusion currently has a consensus target price of $5.25, suggesting a potential upside of 707.82%. Elastic has a consensus target price of $81.26, suggesting a potential downside of 2.45%. Given Intrusion’s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Intrusion is more favorable than Elastic.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
19.4% of Intrusion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Elastic shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.1% of Intrusion shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Elastic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Intrusion and Elastic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Intrusion | -191.24% | -178.06% | -99.59% |
| Elastic | 21.14% | -1.82% | -0.67% |
Summary
Elastic beats Intrusion on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Intrusion
Intrusion Inc., a cybersecurity company in the United States. The company offers its customers access to threat intelligence database, which contains the historical data, known associations, and reputational behavior of Internet Protocol addresses. It offers INTRUSION Shield, a zero trust reputation-based Software as a Service solution that inspects and kills dangerous network connections. The company also provides INTRUSION TraceCop, a big data tool that contains an inventory of network selectors and enrichments to support forensic investigations; and INTRUSION Savant, a network monitoring solution that uses the data available in TraceCop to identify suspicious traffic in real-time. In addition, it engages in the provision of pre-and post-sales support services, such as network security design, system installation, and technical consulting services. The company serves US federal government entities, state and local government entities, and companies ranging from mid-market to large enterprises through a direct sales force and value-added resellers. The company was formerly known as Intrusion.com, Inc. and changed its name to Intrusion Inc. in November 2001. Intrusion Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
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.
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