Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL – Get Free Report) and Everpure (NYSE:P – Get Free Report) are both large-cap technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Apple and Everpure, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Apple | 4 | 12 | 22 | 1 | 2.51 |
| Everpure | 1 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 2.76 |
Apple currently has a consensus price target of $330.53, suggesting a potential upside of 3.39%. Everpure has a consensus price target of $129.10, suggesting a potential upside of 37.97%. Given Everpure’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Everpure is more favorable than Apple.
Risk and Volatility
Institutional and Insider Ownership
67.7% of Apple shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Everpure shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Apple shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Everpure shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Apple and Everpure’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Apple | 27.62% | 135.46% | 34.11% |
| Everpure | 5.94% | 19.06% | 5.89% |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Apple and Everpure”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Apple | $416.16 billion | 11.21 | $112.01 billion | $8.72 | 36.66 |
| Everpure | $3.66 billion | 8.49 | $188.18 million | $0.73 | 128.18 |
Apple has higher revenue and earnings than Everpure. Apple is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Everpure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Apple beats Everpure on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Apple
Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories worldwide. The company offers iPhone, a line of smartphones; Mac, a line of personal computers; iPad, a line of multi-purpose tablets; and wearables, home, and accessories comprising AirPods, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats products, and HomePod. It also provides AppleCare support and cloud services; and operates various platforms, including the App Store that allow customers to discover and download applications and digital content, such as books, music, video, games, and podcasts. In addition, the company offers various services, such as Apple Arcade, a game subscription service; Apple Fitness+, a personalized fitness service; Apple Music, which offers users a curated listening experience with on-demand radio stations; Apple News+, a subscription news and magazine service; Apple TV+, which offers exclusive original content; Apple Card, a co-branded credit card; and Apple Pay, a cashless payment service, as well as licenses its intellectual property. The company serves consumers, and small and mid-sized businesses; and the education, enterprise, and government markets. It distributes third-party applications for its products through the App Store. The company also sells its products through its retail and online stores, and direct sales force; and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and resellers. Apple Inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
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.
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