Comparing HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Everpure (NYSE:P)

Everpure (NYSE:P) and HP (NYSE:HPQ) are both large-cap technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and earnings.

Volatility and Risk

Everpure has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HP has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Everpure and HP’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Everpure	5.94%	19.06%	5.89%
HP	4.14%	-947.78%	7.43%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Everpure and HP, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Everpure	1	3	17	0	2.76
HP	5	8	0	3	2.06

Everpure presently has a consensus price target of $129.10, suggesting a potential upside of 24.02%. HP has a consensus price target of $25.77, suggesting a potential downside of 25.19%. Given Everpure’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Everpure is more favorable than HP.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

83.4% of Everpure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.5% of HP shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Everpure shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of HP shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Everpure and HP”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Everpure	$3.66 billion	9.47	$188.18 million	$0.73	142.60
HP	$55.30 billion	0.56	$2.53 billion	$2.62	13.15

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

Summary

Everpure beats HP on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Everpure

Pure Storage, Inc. provides data storage technologies, products, and services in the United States and internationally. The company’s Purity software is shared across its products and provides enterprise-class data services, such as data reduction, data protection, and encryption, as well as storage protocols, including block, file, and object. Its products portfolio includes FlashArray for block-oriented storage, addressing databases, applications, virtual machines, and other traditional workloads; FlashArray//XL; and FlashArray//C, an all-QLC flash array. The company also provides FlashBlade, a solution for unstructured data workloads of various types; FlashStack that combines compute, network, and storage to provide an infrastructure platform; FlashRecover, an all-flash modern data-protection solution; and AIRI, a full-stack AI-ready infrastructure. In addition, it offers evergreen storage subscription, Pure as-a-Service, and Cloud Block Store, as well as Portworx a cloud-native Kubernetes data management solution It also offers technical and professional, training and education, and certification services. The company sells its products and subscription services through direct sales force and channel partners. The company was formerly known as OS76, Inc. and changed its name to Pure Storage, Inc. in January 2010. Pure Storage, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

About HP

HP Inc. provides products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses, and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health, and education sectors worldwide. It operates through Personal Systems and Printing segments. The Personal Systems segment offers commercial personal computers (PCs), consumer PCs, workstations, thin clients, commercial tablets and mobility devices, retail point-of-sale systems, displays and other related accessories, software, support, and services for the commercial and consumer markets. The Printing segment provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, supplies, media, solutions, and services, as well as scanning devices; and laserJet and enterprise, inkjet and printing, graphics, and 3D printing solutions. The company was formerly known as Hewlett-Packard Company and changed its name to HP Inc. in October 2015. HP Inc. was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.