Critical Survey: Code Rebel (OTCMKTS:CDRBQ) and Elastic (NYSE:ESTC)

Code Rebel (OTCMKTS:CDRBQ) and Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Code Rebel and Elastic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Code Rebel	N/A	N/A	N/A
Elastic	4.39%	-13.20%	-4.59%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

97.0% of Elastic shares are held by institutional investors. 15.9% of Elastic shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Code Rebel and Elastic, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Code Rebel	0	0	0	0	0.00
Elastic	0	6	18	1	2.80

Elastic has a consensus target price of $126.50, suggesting a potential upside of 22.07%. Given Elastic’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Elastic is more favorable than Code Rebel.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Code Rebel and Elastic”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Code Rebel	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Elastic	$1.38 billion	7.81	$61.72 million	$0.55	188.42

Elastic has higher revenue and earnings than Code Rebel.

Volatility & Risk

Code Rebel has a beta of -16.58, indicating that its share price is 1,758% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elastic has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Elastic beats Code Rebel on 9 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Code Rebel

Code Rebel Corporation operates as a software and information technology (IT) services company. It operates in two segments, Software and IT Services. The Software segment develops, markets, and licenses interactive remote application terminal services solution (iRAPP). The iRAPP allows personal computers users to use applications on a single Mac remote desktop simultaneously via the iRAPP client or any standard compliant remote desktop protocol client. This segment offers iRAPP client-side products for Mac OS X and Windows applications; iRAPP terminal server products, including iRAPP-single-user remote desktop and iRAPP-TS multiple-user terminal server for Mac OS X applications; and iRAPP access products, such as iRAPP Load Balancer and iRAPP Gateway. The IT Services segment provides Independent Software Vendor relationships (ISVs)/channel partner platforms, which provide project management, application, and technical consulting, as well as database administration for implementing projects and managed-services engagements; and professional services consulting that implements, upgrades, and maintains software packages those ISVs offer to their clients. Code Rebel Corporation was founded in 2007 and is based in Kahului, Hawaii.

About Elastic

Elastic N.V., a data analytics company, delivers solutions designed to run in public or private clouds in multi-cloud environments. It primarily offers Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization on that data. The company's Elastic Stack product portfolio comprises Elasticsearch, a distributed, real-time search and analytics engine, and data store for various types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the Elastic Stack; Elastic Agent that offers integrated host protection and central management services; Beats, a single-purpose data shippers for sending data from edge machines to Elasticsearch or Logstash; and Logstash, a data processing pipeline for ingesting data into Elasticsearch or other storage systems from a multitude of sources simultaneously. It also provides software solutions on the Elastic Stack that address cases, including search applications, workplace search, logs, metrics, application performance monitoring, synthetic monitoring, security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint security, extended detection and response, and cloud security. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.