Alarm.com (NASDAQ:ALRM – Get Free Report) and Cycurion (NASDAQ:CYCU – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
Volatility and Risk
Alarm.com has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cycurion has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Alarm.com and Cycurion’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Alarm.com | 12.92% | 14.26% | 5.32% |
| Cycurion | -112.73% | -186.09% | -62.96% |
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Alarm.com | $991.77 million | 2.57 | $124.12 million | $2.36 | 21.68 |
| Cycurion | $17.77 million | 0.53 | $1.23 million | ($23.52) | -0.11 |
Alarm.com has higher revenue and earnings than Cycurion. Cycurion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alarm.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
91.7% of Alarm.com shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Cycurion shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of Alarm.com shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.8% of Cycurion shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Alarm.com and Cycurion, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Alarm.com | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2.40 |
| Cycurion | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Alarm.com currently has a consensus target price of $64.67, suggesting a potential upside of 26.38%. Given Alarm.com’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Alarm.com is more favorable than Cycurion.
Summary
Alarm.com beats Cycurion on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Alarm.com
Alarm.com Holdings, Inc. provides various Internet of Things (IoT) and solutions for residential, multi-family, small business, and enterprise commercial markets in North America and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Alarm.com and Other. It offers solutions to control and monitor security systems, as well as to IoT devices, including door locks, garage doors, thermostats, and video cameras; and video monitoring and analytics solutions, such as video analytics, escalated events, video doorbells, intelligent integration, live streaming, secure cloud storage, and video alerts. The company also provides scenes, video analytics triggers, thermostat schedules, responsive savings, precision comfort, energy usage monitoring, places feature, whole home water safety, and solar monitoring solutions, as well as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning monitoring services. In addition, it offers demand response programs, commercial grade video, commercial video analytics, access control, cell connectors, enterprise dashboard and multi-site management, energy savings, protection for valuables and inventory, temperature monitoring, and daily safeguard solutions. Further, the company provides a permission-based online portal that provides account management, sales, marketing, training, and support tools; a unified interface that displays key operational and customer experience indicators, including technician performance, system reliability and customer engagement metrics; installation and support services; MobileTech Application and Remote Toolkit; video health reports; smart gateway; AI-powered enhancements to professional monitoring and false alarm reduction; Web services and business intelligence; sales, marketing, and training services; and home builder programs. Additionally, it offers electric utility grid and water management, indoor gunshot detection, and health and wellness and data-rich emergency response solutions. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Tysons, Virginia.
About Cycurion
Cycurion is a global leading provider of Network Communications and Information Technology Security Solutions. Our mission is to develop and deliver world-class, cutting-edge solutions for our clients, regardless of size or complication, expressly optimizing your IT environment to meet the business need and to keep projects on track and on budget.
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