Reviewing Cycurion (NASDAQ:CYCU) and Data443 Risk Mitigation (OTCMKTS:ATDS)

Cycurion (NASDAQ:CYCU) and Data443 Risk Mitigation (OTCMKTS:ATDS) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Cycurion and Data443 Risk Mitigation, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cycurion	1	1	1	0	2.00
Data443 Risk Mitigation	0	0	0	0	0.00

Cycurion presently has a consensus price target of $7.00, indicating a potential upside of 629.17%. Given Cycurion’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cycurion is more favorable than Data443 Risk Mitigation.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Cycurion and Data443 Risk Mitigation”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cycurion	$15.13 million	0.55	-$23.67 million	($7.17)	-0.13
Data443 Risk Mitigation	$4.42 million	0.02	-$2.57 million	($0.99)	0.00

Data443 Risk Mitigation has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cycurion. Cycurion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Data443 Risk Mitigation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

6.6% of Cycurion shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.7% of Cycurion shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 36.4% of Data443 Risk Mitigation shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility & Risk

Cycurion has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Data443 Risk Mitigation has a beta of 47.09, indicating that its share price is 4,609% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Cycurion and Data443 Risk Mitigation’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cycurion	-108.49%	-123.25%	-53.74%
Data443 Risk Mitigation	-67.98%	N/A	-51.26%

Summary

Data443 Risk Mitigation beats Cycurion on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Data443 Risk Mitigation

Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. provides data security and privacy management solutions in the United States. The company offers Cyren Threat Intelligence Service that provides security, response, software, and services; Cyren Inbox Security for Microsoft 365, which prevents user access to malicious links and attachments; Ransomware Recovery Manager to recover a workstation upon infection to the last known business-operable state; Data Identification Manager, a data classification and governance technology; Data Archive Manager for enterprise data retention management and archiving; and Sensitive Content Manager, a cloud-based platform for managing, protecting, and distributing digital content. It also provides Data Placement Manager, a data transport, transformation, and delivery product; Access Control Manager that enables access controls across various platforms at scale for internal client systems and commercial public cloud platforms; Blockchain Protection Manager, which protects blockchain transactions from inadvertent disclosure and data leaks; and Global Privacy Manager, a privacy compliance and consumer loss mitigation platform. In addition, the company offers IntellyWP to enhance the user experience for content management platform; Chat History Scanner, which scans chat messages for compliance, security, personally identifiable information, personal information, payment card industry information, and custom keywords; and GDPR Framework, CCPA Framework, and LGPD Framework WordPress Plugins that enables organizations’ compliance on privacy rules and regulations. It serves the government, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology, and telecommunications sectors. The company was formerly known as LandStar, Inc. and changed its name to Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. in October 2019. Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.