HashiCorp (NASDAQ:HCP) vs. Perficient (NASDAQ:PRFT) Head to Head Contrast

Perficient (NASDAQ:PRFT) and HashiCorp (NASDAQ:HCP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Perficient and HashiCorp’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Perficient	10.91%	23.39%	11.14%
HashiCorp	-32.70%	-15.58%	-11.55%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

95.0% of Perficient shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.8% of HashiCorp shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Perficient shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.1% of HashiCorp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Perficient and HashiCorp, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Perficient	0	3	3	0	2.50
HashiCorp	0	10	4	0	2.29

Perficient currently has a consensus target price of $65.17, suggesting a potential upside of 35.45%. HashiCorp has a consensus target price of $30.77, suggesting a potential downside of 6.33%. Given Perficient’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Perficient is more favorable than HashiCorp.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Perficient and HashiCorp’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Perficient	$906.54 million	1.86	$98.93 million	$2.76	17.43
HashiCorp	$583.14 million	11.24	-$190.67 million	($0.98)	-33.52

Perficient has higher revenue and earnings than HashiCorp. HashiCorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Perficient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Perficient has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HashiCorp has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Perficient beats HashiCorp on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Perficient

Perficient, Inc. provides digital consultancy services and solutions in the United States and internationally. It offers strategy and transformation solutions in digital strategy, technology strategy, business velocity and growth, and organizational change management; and data and intelligence solutions in the areas of analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, big data, business intelligence, and custom product portfolios. The company also provides platform and technology solutions in blockchain, cloud, commerce, corporate performance and customer relationship management, content management systems, customer experience platforms, custom application development, DevOps, enterprise resource planning, integration and APIs, intelligent automation, Internet of Things, mobile, portals and collaboration, supply chain, product information management, and order management systems. In addition, it offers customer experience and digital marketing solutions, which includes analytics, content architecture, conversion rate optimization, creative design, email marketing, journey sciences, paid media, paid search, marketing automation research, SEO services, and social media; innovation and production development solutions comprise product development services and a robust suite of proprietary products; and optimized global delivery solutions. The company serves healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, automotive, consumer, communications, energy and utilities, and media and technology markets. Perficient, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

About HashiCorp

HashiCorp, Inc. engages in the provision of multi-cloud infrastructure automation solutions worldwide. The company offers infrastructure provisioning products, including Terraform, that enables IT operations teams to apply an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, where processes and configuration required to support applications are codified and automated instead of being manual and ticket-based; Packer, that provides a consistent way to define the process of transforming the raw source inputs into a production worthy artifact, across any environment or packaging format; and Vagrant, that allows teams to define how development environments are set up. It also provides security products, such as Vault, a secrets management and data protection product, which enables security teams to apply policies based on application and user identity to govern access to credentials and secure sensitive data; and Boundary, that applies an identity-based approach to privileged access management and unifies the controls to a single system. In addition, the company offers Consul, an application-centric networking automation product that enables practitioners to manage application traffic, security teams to secure and restrict access between applications, and operations teams to automate the underlying network infrastructure; Nomad, a scheduler and workload orchestrator, which provides practitioners with a self-service interface to manage the application lifecycle; and Waypoint, an application delivery product that provides a developer-focused workflow for the build, deploy, and release process. Further, it provides HashiCorp Cloud Platform, a fully-managed cloud platform for multiple products to accelerate enterprise cloud migration by addressing resource and skills gaps, improving operational efficiency, and speeding up deployment time for customers. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.