Financial Contrast: AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) versus Cellebrite DI (NASDAQ:CLBT)

AvePoint (NASDAQ:AVPT) and Cellebrite DI (NASDAQ:CLBT) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for AvePoint and Cellebrite DI, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AvePoint	0	5	9	2	2.81
Cellebrite DI	1	0	4	0	2.60

AvePoint currently has a consensus target price of $18.94, indicating a potential upside of 43.24%. Cellebrite DI has a consensus target price of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 34.53%. Given AvePoint’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AvePoint is more favorable than Cellebrite DI.

Risk & Volatility

AvePoint has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cellebrite DI has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares AvePoint and Cellebrite DI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AvePoint	0.55%	0.66%	0.40%
Cellebrite DI	16.74%	20.81%	10.71%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares AvePoint and Cellebrite DI”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AvePoint	$330.48 million	8.63	-$29.09 million	N/A	N/A
Cellebrite DI	$401.20 million	10.65	-$283.01 million	$0.31	57.55

AvePoint has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cellebrite DI.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

44.5% of AvePoint shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.9% of Cellebrite DI shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.2% of AvePoint shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.7% of Cellebrite DI shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Cellebrite DI beats AvePoint on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AvePoint

AvePoint, Inc. provides cloud-native data management software platform in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. It also offers software-as-a-service solutions and productivity applications. The company offers modularity and cloud services architecture to address critical challenges and the management of data to organizations that leverage third-party cloud vendors, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google, AWS, Box, DropBox, and others; license and support; and maintenance services. AvePoint, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

About Cellebrite DI

Cellebrite DI Ltd. develops solutions for legally sanctioned investigations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. The company's DI suite of solutions allows users to collect, review, analyze, and manage digital data across the investigative lifecycle with respect to legally sanctioned investigations used in various cases, including child exploitation, homicide, anti-terror, border control, sexual crimes, human trafficking, corporate security, cryptocurrency, and intellectual property theft. It provides Inseyets, a digital forensics software that collects and reviews digital evidence from various digital sources when conducting legally sanctioned investigations. The company's digital forensics software also offers data extraction, decoding capabilities, workflows, and automation capabilities. In addition, it provides Cellebrite Pathfinder, which reduces the time spent manually reviewing digital evidence by automating data analysis and visualization; Smart Search, an open source intelligence tool that automates the collection and review of publicly available online data; and Guardian, a case and evidence management solution. Further, the company offers digital forensic software for enterprises and service providers, including Inseyets for Enterprise, Endpoint Inspector, and Mobile Now; and professional services, such as training and certification services, and other services. It serves federal and state and local agencies. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel.