Critical Survey: Corsair Gaming (NASDAQ:CRSR) and Everpure (NYSE:P)

Everpure (NYSE:P) and Corsair Gaming (NASDAQ:CRSR) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Profitability

This table compares Everpure and Corsair Gaming’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%
Corsair Gaming	2.36%	13.10%	6.88%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Everpure and Corsair Gaming, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Everpure	1	2	18	1	2.86
Corsair Gaming	1	4	4	0	2.33

Everpure presently has a consensus target price of $143.25, suggesting a potential upside of 14.65%. Corsair Gaming has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential downside of 13.29%. Given Everpure’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Everpure is more favorable than Corsair Gaming.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Everpure and Corsair Gaming”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	11.37	$188.18 million	$0.73	171.16
Corsair Gaming	$1.47 billion	1.02	-$12.47 million	$0.30	46.13

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

Risk & Volatility

Everpure has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Corsair Gaming has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

83.4% of Everpure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.7% of Corsair Gaming shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Everpure shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 54.5% of Corsair Gaming shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Everpure beats Corsair Gaming on 12 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 Corsair Gaming

Corsair Gaming, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, and sells gaming and streaming peripherals, components and systems in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific. It offers gamer and creator peripherals, including gaming keyboards, mice, headsets, controllers, and streaming products, such as capture cards, stream decks, microphones and audio interfaces, facecam streaming cameras, studio accessories, gaming furniture, and other related products. The company also provides gaming components and systems comprising power supply units, cooling solutions, computer cases, and DRAM modules, as well as prebuilt and custom-built gaming PCs and laptops, gaming monitors, and others; and PC gaming software comprising iCUE for gamers and Elgato streaming suite for content creators, as well as digital services. It sells its products through e-retail, retail, and direct-to-consumer channels and distributors. Corsair Gaming, Inc. was formerly known as Corsair Components (Cayman) Ltd and changed its name to Corsair Gaming, Inc in August 2017. The company was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.