Critical Review: BOX (NYSE:BOX) versus Data443 Risk Mitigation (OTCMKTS:ATDS)

BOX (NYSE:BOX) and Data443 Risk Mitigation (OTCMKTS:ATDS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares BOX and Data443 Risk Mitigation”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BOX	$1.09 billion	4.26	$129.03 million	$1.35	23.91
Data443 Risk Mitigation	$5.58 million	0.00	-$4.24 million	N/A	N/A

BOX has higher revenue and earnings than Data443 Risk Mitigation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

86.7% of BOX shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of BOX shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.4% of Data443 Risk Mitigation shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for BOX and Data443 Risk Mitigation, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BOX	1	2	9	0	2.67
Data443 Risk Mitigation	0	0	0	0	0.00

BOX presently has a consensus target price of $36.60, indicating a potential upside of 13.38%. Given BOX’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe BOX is more favorable than Data443 Risk Mitigation.

Profitability

This table compares BOX and Data443 Risk Mitigation’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BOX	13.96%	-17.20%	6.15%
Data443 Risk Mitigation	-90.22%	N/A	-88.94%

Risk and Volatility

BOX has a beta of 1, indicating that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Data443 Risk Mitigation has a beta of 33.71, indicating that its share price is 3,271% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

BOX beats Data443 Risk Mitigation on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BOX

Box, Inc. engages in the provision of an enterprise content platform that enables organizations to securely manage enterprise content while allowing easy, secure access and sharing of this content from anywhere, on any device. Its products include cloud content management, IT and admin controls, Box Governance, Box Zones, Box Relay, Box Shuttle, and Box KeySafe. The company was founded by Aaron Levie, Dylan Smith, Jeff Queisser, and Sam Ghods in March 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

About Data443 Risk Mitigation

Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. provides data security and privacy management solutions in the United States. The company offers Cyren Threat Intelligence Service that provides security, response, software, and services; Cyren Inbox Security for Microsoft 365, which prevents user access to malicious links and attachments; Ransomware Recovery Manager to recover a workstation upon infection to the last known business-operable state; Data Identification Manager, a data classification and governance technology; Data Archive Manager for enterprise data retention management and archiving; and Sensitive Content Manager, a cloud-based platform for managing, protecting, and distributing digital content. It also provides Data Placement Manager, a data transport, transformation, and delivery product; Access Control Manager that enables access controls across various platforms at scale for internal client systems and commercial public cloud platforms; Blockchain Protection Manager, which protects blockchain transactions from inadvertent disclosure and data leaks; and Global Privacy Manager, a privacy compliance and consumer loss mitigation platform. In addition, the company offers IntellyWP to enhance the user experience for content management platform; Chat History Scanner, which scans chat messages for compliance, security, personally identifiable information, personal information, payment card industry information, and custom keywords; and GDPR Framework, CCPA Framework, and LGPD Framework WordPress Plugins that enables organizations’ compliance on privacy rules and regulations. It serves the government, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology, and telecommunications sectors. The company was formerly known as LandStar, Inc. and changed its name to Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. in October 2019. Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.