AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP) versus HashiCorp (NASDAQ:HCP) Critical Comparison

AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP) and HashiCorp (NASDAQ:HCP) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

87.8% of HashiCorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of AppYea shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.5% of HashiCorp shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares AppYea and HashiCorp”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AppYea	N/A	N/A	-$1.82 million	N/A	N/A
HashiCorp	$627.63 million	10.87	-$190.67 million	($0.75)	-44.83

AppYea has higher earnings, but lower revenue than HashiCorp.

Volatility & Risk

AppYea has a beta of 1.92, suggesting that its stock price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HashiCorp has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares AppYea and HashiCorp’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AppYea	N/A	N/A	-269.35%
HashiCorp	-23.69%	-10.54%	-7.74%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for AppYea and HashiCorp, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AppYea	0	0	0	0	0.00
HashiCorp	0	11	3	0	2.21

HashiCorp has a consensus target price of $32.08, indicating a potential downside of 4.57%. Given HashiCorp’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe HashiCorp is more favorable than AppYea.

Summary

HashiCorp beats AppYea on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AppYea

AppYea, Inc., a digital health company, develops wearable monitoring solutions to treat sleep apnea and snoring. It develops AppySleep app, a wristband that monitors physiological parameters during sleep; AppySleep, a biofeedback snoring treatment wristband; AppySleep LAB, a smartphone medical application that monitors breathing patterns in the sleep and identify sleep arena episode without direct contact to the user; and AppySleep PRO a wristband for the treatment of sleep arena using biofeedback in combination with AppySleep LAB app. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Gan Yavne, Israel.

About HashiCorp

HashiCorp, Inc. engages in the provision of multi-cloud infrastructure automation solutions worldwide. The company offers infrastructure provisioning products, including Terraform, that enables IT operations teams to apply an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, where processes and configuration required to support applications are codified and automated instead of being manual and ticket-based; Packer, that provides a consistent way to define the process of transforming the raw source inputs into a production worthy artifact, across any environment or packaging format; and Vagrant, that allows teams to define how development environments are set up. It also provides security products, such as Vault, a secrets management and data protection product, which enables security teams to apply policies based on application and user identity to govern access to credentials and secure sensitive data; and Boundary, that applies an identity-based approach to privileged access management and unifies the controls to a single system. In addition, the company offers Consul, an application-centric networking automation product that enables practitioners to manage application traffic, security teams to secure and restrict access between applications, and operations teams to automate the underlying network infrastructure; Nomad, a scheduler and workload orchestrator, which provides practitioners with a self-service interface to manage the application lifecycle; and Waypoint, an application delivery product that provides a developer-focused workflow for the build, deploy, and release process. Further, it provides HashiCorp Cloud Platform, a fully-managed cloud platform for multiple products to accelerate enterprise cloud migration by addressing resource and skills gaps, improving operational efficiency, and speeding up deployment time for customers. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.