Everpure (NYSE:P – Get Free Report) and Canon (OTCMKTS:CAJPY – Get Free Report) are both large-cap technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and earnings.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
83.4% of Everpure shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Everpure shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Canon 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.
Volatility and Risk
Everpure has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Canon has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Everpure | 1 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 2.71 |
| Canon | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
Everpure presently has a consensus target price of $107.05, suggesting a potential upside of 4.12%. Given Everpure’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Everpure is more favorable than Canon.
Profitability
This table compares Everpure and Canon’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Everpure | 5.75% | 15.97% | 5.07% |
| Canon | 7.36% | 9.33% | 5.51% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Everpure and Canon”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Everpure | $3.66 billion | 9.33 | $188.18 million | $0.66 | 155.78 |
| Canon | $29.46 billion | 0.86 | $2.22 billion | $2.54 | 11.39 |
Canon has higher revenue and earnings than Everpure. Canon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Everpure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Everpure beats Canon on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Everpure
Pure Storage, Inc. provides data storage technologies, products, and services in the United States and internationally. The company’s Purity software is shared across its products and provides enterprise-class data services, such as data reduction, data protection, and encryption, as well as storage protocols, including block, file, and object. Its products portfolio includes FlashArray for block-oriented storage, addressing databases, applications, virtual machines, and other traditional workloads; FlashArray//XL; and FlashArray//C, an all-QLC flash array. The company also provides FlashBlade, a solution for unstructured data workloads of various types; FlashStack that combines compute, network, and storage to provide an infrastructure platform; FlashRecover, an all-flash modern data-protection solution; and AIRI, a full-stack AI-ready infrastructure. In addition, it offers evergreen storage subscription, Pure as-a-Service, and Cloud Block Store, as well as Portworx a cloud-native Kubernetes data management solution It also offers technical and professional, training and education, and certification services. The company sells its products and subscription services through direct sales force and channel partners. The company was formerly known as OS76, Inc. and changed its name to Pure Storage, Inc. in January 2010. Pure Storage, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
About Canon
Canon Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells office multifunction devices (MFDs), plain paper copying machines, laser and inkjet printers, cameras, diagnostic equipment, and lithography equipment. The company operates through four segments: Printing Business Unit, Imaging Business Unit, Medical Business Unit, and Industrial and Others Business Unit. The Printing Business Unit segment offers office MFDs, document solutions, laser multifunction printers, laser printers, inkjet printers, image scanners, calculators, digital continuous feed presses, digital sheet-fed presses, and large format printers. The Imaging Business Unit segment provides interchangeable-lens digital cameras, digital compact cameras, interchangeable lenses, compact photo printers, network cameras, video management and video content analytics software, digital camcorders, digital cinema cameras, broadcast equipment, and multimedia projectors. The Medical System Business Unit segment offers computed tomography systems, diagnostic ultrasound systems, diagnostic X-ray systems, magnetic resonance imaging systems, clinical chemistry analyzers, digital radiography systems, and ophthalmic equipment. The Industry and Others Business Unit segment provides semiconductor lithography equipment, flat panel display lithography equipment, vacuum thin-film deposition equipment, organic light-emitting diode display manufacturing equipment, die bonders, handy terminals, and document scanners. The company also provides maintenance services; and supplies replacement drums, parts, toners, and papers. It sells its products under the Canon brand through subsidiaries or independent distributors to dealers and retail outlets, as well as directly to end-users globally. Canon Inc. was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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