Head-To-Head Contrast: CyberAgent (OTCMKTS:CYGIY) versus Bridgeline Digital (NASDAQ:BLIN)

Bridgeline Digital (NASDAQ:BLIN) and CyberAgent (OTCMKTS:CYGIY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Bridgeline Digital and CyberAgent, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bridgeline Digital	1	1	1	0	2.00
CyberAgent	0	0	0	0	0.00

Bridgeline Digital presently has a consensus target price of $4.62, suggesting a potential upside of 530.29%. Given Bridgeline Digital’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Bridgeline Digital is more favorable than CyberAgent.

Profitability

This table compares Bridgeline Digital and CyberAgent’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bridgeline Digital	-16.37%	-25.40%	-15.73%
CyberAgent	4.31%	16.57%	8.37%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

15.1% of Bridgeline Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.5% of Bridgeline Digital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Bridgeline Digital and CyberAgent”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bridgeline Digital	$15.38 million	0.58	-$2.52 million	($0.26)	-2.82
CyberAgent	$5.86 billion	0.79	$212.18 million	$0.20	22.85

CyberAgent has higher revenue and earnings than Bridgeline Digital. Bridgeline Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CyberAgent, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

Bridgeline Digital has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CyberAgent has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

CyberAgent beats Bridgeline Digital on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Bridgeline Digital

Bridgeline Digital, Inc. operates as a marketing technology company in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company offers HawkSearch, a site search, recommendation, and personalization application for marketers, merchandisers, and developers; Celebros Search, a commerce-oriented site search product that provides natural language processing with artificial intelligence; and Woorank, a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) audit tool that generates an instant performance audit of the site's technical, on-page, and off-page SEO. It also provides Bridgeline TruPresence, a web content management and eCommerce platform to support the needs of multi-unit organizations and franchises; Bridgeline Unbound, a technology suite that empower marketers to easily manage their digital experiences and create personalized customer journeys; and OrchestraCMS, a digital experience platform that enables development of custom solutions, third-party integrations, and delivery of digital transformation initiatives on the Salesforce platform. In addition, the company offers digital engagement services comprising digital strategy, web design and web development, usability engineering, information architecture, and SEO, as well as hosting services. It serves vertical markets, such as industrial distributors and wholesalers, franchises and enterprises, manufacturers, eCommerce retailers, health services and life sciences, technology, credit unions and banks, and associations and foundations through its direct sales force. The company was formerly known as Bridgeline Software, Inc. Bridgeline Digital, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

About CyberAgent

CyberAgent, Inc. engages in the media, internet advertising, game, and investment development businesses primarily in Japan. The company operates Ameba, a blog service; Tapple for online dating; AWA, a music streaming service; and WinTicket for online betting. It also offers internet advertising agency and ad technology services; and smartphone games. In addition, the company operates a programming school for kids and provides application and reward points exchange platform services; artificial intelligence services; and digital transformation services. CyberAgent, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.