BILL (NYSE:BILL – Get Free Report) and N-able (NYSE:NABL – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Profitability
This table compares BILL and N-able’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BILL | -0.68% | 3.74% | 1.39% |
| N-able | -0.88% | 3.55% | 2.04% |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
98.0% of BILL shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.3% of N-able shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of BILL shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of N-able shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Ratings
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BILL | 1 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 2.60 |
| N-able | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 |
BILL presently has a consensus target price of $58.67, suggesting a potential upside of 33.67%. N-able has a consensus target price of $5.08, suggesting a potential upside of 14.80%. Given BILL’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe BILL is more favorable than N-able.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares BILL and N-able”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BILL | $1.65 billion | 2.26 | -$11.24 million | ($0.13) | -337.61 |
| N-able | $511.43 million | 1.63 | -$18.82 million | ($0.02) | -221.25 |
BILL has higher revenue and earnings than N-able. BILL is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than N-able, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility & Risk
BILL has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, N-able has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BILL beats N-able on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About BILL
BILL Holdings, Inc. provides financial automation software for small and midsize businesses worldwide. The company provides software-as-a-service, cloud-based payments, and spend management products, which allow users to automate accounts payable and accounts receivable transactions, as well as enable users to connect with their suppliers and/or customers to do business, eliminate expense reports, manage cash flows, and improve office efficiency. It also offers onboarding implementation support, and ongoing support and training services. In addition, the company's artificial intelligence enabled software provides connections between suppliers and clients. It serves accounting firms, financial institutions, and software companies. The company was formerly known as Bill.com Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to BILL Holdings, Inc. in February 2023. BILL Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
About N-able
N-able, Inc. provides cloud-based software solutions for managed service providers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company's solutions enable MSPs to support digital transformation and growth within small and medium-sized enterprises. It provides software platform designed to be an integrated, enterprise-grade solution that serves as an operating system for its MSP partners and scales as their businesses grow. In addition, the company offers remote monitoring and management solutions provide MSP partners with visibility and insights into the availability and performance of their customers' networks, infrastructure, devices and applications through a centralized dashboard; data protection as-a-service solutions, such as backup and disaster recovery for servers, virtual machines, workstations, files, data, and key cloud-based applications, as well as multi-tenant platform and secure remote delivery architecture. Further, it offers security services through patch management, endpoint security, managed detection and response, web protection, e-mail security, and archiving and vulnerability assessment solutions. Additionally, the company engages in professional services automation, automation and scripting management, password management policies and reporting, and analytics. N-able, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
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