Head-To-Head Comparison: Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) vs. Beyond Commerce (OTCMKTS:BYOC)

Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) and Beyond Commerce (OTCMKTS:BYOC) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Risk and Volatility

Workday has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beyond Commerce has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

89.8% of Workday shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of Workday shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Beyond Commerce shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Workday and Beyond Commerce’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Workday	19.86%	6.13%	3.13%
Beyond Commerce	-80.93%	N/A	-66.09%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Workday and Beyond Commerce, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Workday	0	7	21	0	2.75
Beyond Commerce	0	0	0	0	0.00

Workday presently has a consensus price target of $292.43, indicating a potential upside of 13.32%. Given Workday’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Workday is more favorable than Beyond Commerce.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Workday and Beyond Commerce”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Workday	$8.16 billion	8.42	$1.38 billion	$6.03	42.79
Beyond Commerce	$3.56 million	0.93	-$2.28 million	N/A	N/A

Workday has higher revenue and earnings than Beyond Commerce.

Summary

Workday beats Beyond Commerce on 12 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Workday

Workday, Inc. provides enterprise cloud applications in the United States and internationally. Its applications help its customers to plan, execute, analyze, and extend to other applications and environments to manage their business and operations. The company offers a suite of financial management applications to maintain accounting information in the general ledger; manage financial processes, such as payables and receivables; identify real-time financial, operational, and management insights; enhance financial consolidation; reduce time-to-close; promote internal control and auditability; and achieve consistency across finance operations. It also provides spend management solutions that help organizations to streamline supplier selection and contracts, manage indirect spend, and build and execute sourcing events, such as requests for proposals; expense management solutions to submit and approve expenses; and a suite of human capital management applications that enables HR teams to hire, onboard, pay, develop, reskill, and provide employee experiences. In addition, the company offers planning applications; and applications for analytics and reporting comprising augmented analytics to surface insights to the line of business in simple-to-understand stories, machine learning to drive efficiency and automation, and benchmarks to compare performance against other companies. Further, it provides supply chain and inventory solutions to healthcare organizations; solutions to manage the end-to-end student and faculty lifecycle; and Workday Extend for customers and their developers to build custom applications. It serves professional and business services, financial services, healthcare, education, government, technology, media, retail, and hospitality industries. The company was formerly known as North Tahoe Power Tools, Inc. and changed its name to Workday, Inc. in July 2005. Workday, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

About Beyond Commerce

Beyond Commerce, Inc. engages in the business-to-business Internet marketing technology and services, and information management market businesses. It offers content, business process management, customer feedback management, customer experience management, business network, and BYOC analytics services. The company was formerly known as BOOMj, Inc. and changed its name to Beyond Commerce, Inc. in February 2009. Beyond Commerce, Inc. is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.