Contrasting iClick Interactive Asia Group (NASDAQ:ICLK) & Varonis Systems (NASDAQ:VRNS)

iClick Interactive Asia Group (NASDAQ:ICLK) and Varonis Systems (NASDAQ:VRNS) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.

Profitability

This table compares iClick Interactive Asia Group and Varonis Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
iClick Interactive Asia Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Varonis Systems	-20.38%	-21.33%	-9.40%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for iClick Interactive Asia Group and Varonis Systems, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
iClick Interactive Asia Group	0	0	0	0	N/A
Varonis Systems	0	7	11	0	2.61

Varonis Systems has a consensus target price of $49.06, indicating a potential upside of 13.75%. Given Varonis Systems’ higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Varonis Systems is more favorable than iClick Interactive Asia Group.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

95.7% of Varonis Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of iClick Interactive Asia Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Varonis Systems shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares iClick Interactive Asia Group and Varonis Systems’ revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
iClick Interactive Asia Group	$150.76 million	0.08	-$200.88 million	N/A	N/A
Varonis Systems	$499.16 million	9.63	-$100.92 million	($0.94)	-45.88

Varonis Systems has higher revenue and earnings than iClick Interactive Asia Group.

Risk and Volatility

iClick Interactive Asia Group has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Varonis Systems has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Varonis Systems beats iClick Interactive Asia Group on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About iClick Interactive Asia Group

iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides online marketing services in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company offers iAudience, a market intelligence platform to provide real-time insights of the target audiences and competitive landscapes, which allows enterprises to explore potential market opportunities and drive long-term business growth; iAccess, an audience engagement and activation solution tailored for brand awareness-driven and performance-driven campaigns; iNsights 2.0, a marketing analytics platform that provides marketers with in-depth analyses, including conversion path analysis, cross-channel effectiveness analysis, and E-commerce analysis; iSCRM, a WeChat social customer relationship management that provides enterprises with WeChat private traffic management and operation; and iParllay, a social commerce platform that enhances customer management and marketing automation capabilities. It also provides mobile marketing solutions, which identify, engage, and activate audience on mobile apps, as well as monitor and measure the results of online marketing campaigns. In addition, the company offers enterprise solutions that help clients collect information from various consumer touchpoints and integrate them into a single data management platform to drive sales and marketing decisions. It sells its solutions by entering into sales contracts with marketers, marketing agencies, or other merchants, including marketing campaign contracts. The company was formerly known as Optimix Media Asia Limited and changed its name to iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited in March 2017. iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.

About Varonis Systems

Varonis Systems, Inc. provides software products and services that allow enterprises to manage, analyze, alert, and secure enterprise data in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. Its software enables enterprises to protect data stored on premises and in the cloud, including sensitive files and emails; confidential personal data belonging to customers, and patients and employees' data; financial records; source code, strategic and product plans; and other intellectual property. It offers DatAdvantage that captures, aggregates, normalizes, and analyzes every data access event for users on Windows and UNIX/Linux servers, storage devices, email systems, intranet servers, cloud applications, and data stores; and DatAlert that profiles users, devices, and their behaviors related to systems and data, detects and alerts on deviations that indicate compromise, and provides a web-based dashboard and investigative interface. It also provides data Classification engine that identifies and tags data based on criteria set in various metadata dimensions, as well as provides business and information technology (IT) personnel with actionable intelligence about data; and DataPrivilege. In addition, the company offers Data Transport Engine, an execution engine that unifies the manipulation of data and metadata, translating business decisions, and instructions into technical commands, such as data migration or archiving; and DatAnswers that provides search functionality for enterprise data. It serves its products to financial services, public, healthcare, industrial, technology, insurance, energy and utilities, consumer and retail, education and construction, and engineering sectors. The company sells its products through a network of distributors and resellers. Varonis Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in New York, New York.