Reviewing Smartsheet (NYSE:SMAR) & CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD)

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) and Smartsheet (NYSE:SMAR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for CrowdStrike and Smartsheet, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
CrowdStrike	1	9	30	3	2.81
Smartsheet	1	17	2	0	2.05

CrowdStrike presently has a consensus price target of $361.25, suggesting a potential upside of 2.91%. Smartsheet has a consensus price target of $55.82, suggesting a potential downside of 0.32%. Given CrowdStrike’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe CrowdStrike is more favorable than Smartsheet.

Risk and Volatility

CrowdStrike has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smartsheet has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares CrowdStrike and Smartsheet’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CrowdStrike	3.39%	7.11%	2.72%
Smartsheet	-0.80%	2.33%	1.12%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares CrowdStrike and Smartsheet”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CrowdStrike	$3.74 billion	23.12	$89.33 million	$0.51	688.29
Smartsheet	$1.08 billion	7.24	-$104.63 million	($0.06)	-933.33

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

71.2% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of Smartsheet shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of CrowdStrike shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Smartsheet shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

CrowdStrike beats Smartsheet on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions in the United States and internationally. Its unified platform offers cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data. The company offers corporate endpoint and cloud workload security, managed security, security and vulnerability management, IT operations management, identity protection, SIEM and log management, threat intelligence, data protection, security orchestration, automation and response and AI powered workflow automation, and securing generative AI workload services. It primarily sells subscriptions to its Falcon platform and cloud modules. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

About Smartsheet

Smartsheet, Inc. engages in managing and automating collaborative work. Its platform provides solutions that eliminate the obstacles to capturing information, including a familiar and intuitive spreadsheet interface as well as easily customizable forms. The company was founded by W. Eric Browne, Maria Colacurcio, John D. Creason and Brent R. Frei in June 2005 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.