Santo Mining (OTCMKTS:SANP – Get Free Report) and Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Santo Mining and Zscaler, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Santo Mining | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Zscaler | 1 | 6 | 34 | 0 | 2.80 |
Zscaler has a consensus price target of $215.36, suggesting a potential upside of 18.50%. Given Zscaler’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Zscaler is more favorable than Santo Mining.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Santo Mining | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Zscaler | -2.44% | -0.37% | -0.12% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
46.5% of Zscaler shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.2% of Zscaler shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Santo Mining and Zscaler”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Santo Mining | N/A | N/A | N/A | ($0.02) | -0.32 |
| Zscaler | $2.67 billion | 10.99 | -$41.48 million | ($0.48) | -378.63 |
Santo Mining has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Zscaler. Zscaler is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Santo Mining, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Zscaler beats Santo Mining on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Santo Mining
Santo Mining Corp., doing business as Santo Blockchain Labs, operates as a vertically integrated blockchain and cryptocurrency development company in Vietnam and the Republic of Panama. The company manages, operates, and develops end-to-end Blockchain-as-a-Service. It also develops smart digital contracts, non-fungible tokens, digital to physical assets tokenization, eXetended reality, and Internet of Things solutions. The company was formerly known as Santo Pita Corp. and changed its name to Santo Mining Corp. in March 2012. Santo Mining Corp. was founded in 2009 and is based in Aventura, Florida.
About Zscaler
Zscaler, Inc. operates as a cloud security company worldwide. The company offers Zscaler Internet Access solution that provides users, workloads, IoT, and OT devices secure access to externally managed applications, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and internet destinations; and Zscaler Private Access solution, which is designed to provide access to managed applications hosted internally in data centers, and private or public clouds. It also provides Zscaler Digital Experience that measures end-to-end user experience across business applications, as well as provides an easy-to-understand digital experience score for each user, application, and location within an enterprise. In addition, the company offers Posture Control solutions comprising Cloud Security Posture Management that identifies and remediates application misconfigurations in SaaS, infrastructure as a service, and PaaS to reduce risk and ensure compliance with industry and organizational benchmarks; Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management that detects and remediates excessive or unused cloud permissions and enforces least privileged access without disrupting productivity; Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which analyzes IaC templates to identify misconfigurations and other security issues prior to deployment to cloud infrastructure; and Vulnerability Scanning and Data Loss Prevention solutions. Its platform modules include Zscaler Central Authority, Zscaler Enforcement Node, and Zscaler Log Servers. The company serves customers in airlines and transportation, conglomerates, consumer goods and retail, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and communications, public sector and education, technology, and telecommunications services industries. The company was formerly known as SafeChannel, Inc., and changed its name to Zscaler, Inc. in August 2008. Zscaler, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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