Financial Survey: Blue Sphere (OTCMKTS:BLSP) and PubMatic (NASDAQ:PUBM)

PubMatic (NASDAQ:PUBM) and Blue Sphere (OTCMKTS:BLSP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares PubMatic and Blue Sphere”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PubMatic	$267.01 million	2.71	$8.88 million	$0.21	69.43
Blue Sphere	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

PubMatic has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Sphere.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

64.3% of PubMatic shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of PubMatic shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of Blue Sphere shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for PubMatic and Blue Sphere, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PubMatic	0	3	4	0	2.57
Blue Sphere	0	0	0	0	N/A

PubMatic presently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 44.03%. Given PubMatic’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PubMatic is more favorable than Blue Sphere.

Risk & Volatility

PubMatic has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blue Sphere has a beta of -5.16, suggesting that its share price is 616% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares PubMatic and Blue Sphere’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PubMatic	7.08%	6.92%	3.07%
Blue Sphere	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

PubMatic beats Blue Sphere on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About PubMatic

PubMatic, Inc., a technology company, engages in the provision of a cloud infrastructure platform that enables real-time programmatic advertising transactions for digital content creators, advertisers, agencies, agency trading desks, and demand side platforms worldwide. Its PubMatic SSP, a sell-side platform, used for the purchase and sale of digital advertising inventory for publishers and buyers. The company also provides solutions, including OpenWrap, a header bidding solution; Openwrap OTT, a prebid-powered unified bidding solution; Openwrap SDK, an enterprise-grade management tools and analytics; Connect, a solution that provides additional data and insights to publishers and buyers; Activate, which allows buyers to execute direct deals on its platform across publisher inventory; Convert, a commerce media solution; and Identity Hub, an ID management tool for publishers that leverages specialized technology?infrastructure?to simplify the complex alternative identifier marketplace. Its platform supports an array of ad formats and digital device types, including mobile app, mobile web, desktop, display, video, over-the-top (OTT), connected television, and media. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Redwood City, California.

About Blue Sphere

Blue Sphere Corporation operates as a developer and independent power producer in the clean energy production and waste to energy markets. The company focuses on projects related to the acquisition, construction, and development of biogas facilities in the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Israel. It also focuses on soil amendments, compost, and other by-products. The company was formerly known as Jin Jie Corp. and changed its name to Blue Sphere Corporation in February 2010. Blue Sphere Corporation was founded in 2007 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.