CPI Card Group (NASDAQ:PMTS) versus Everpure (NYSE:P) Head-To-Head Contrast

Everpure (NYSE:P) and CPI Card Group (NASDAQ:PMTS) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Everpure and CPI Card Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Everpure	5.75%	15.97%	5.07%
CPI Card Group	2.34%	-131.31%	6.25%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Everpure and CPI Card Group”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Everpure	$3.66 billion	9.93	$188.18 million	$0.66	165.84
CPI Card Group	$543.53 million	0.65	$14.95 million	$1.15	26.52

Everpure has higher revenue and earnings than CPI Card Group. CPI Card Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Everpure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Everpure and CPI Card Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Everpure	1	4	16	0	2.71
CPI Card Group	0	2	4	0	2.67

Everpure currently has a consensus price target of $99.70, suggesting a potential downside of 8.91%. CPI Card Group has a consensus price target of $30.25, suggesting a potential downside of 0.82%. Given CPI Card Group’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CPI Card Group is more favorable than Everpure.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

83.4% of Everpure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.1% of CPI Card Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Everpure shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of CPI Card Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Everpure has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CPI Card Group has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Everpure beats CPI Card Group on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Everpure

Pure Storage, Inc. provides data storage technologies, products, and services in the United States and internationally. The company’s Purity software is shared across its products and provides enterprise-class data services, such as data reduction, data protection, and encryption, as well as storage protocols, including block, file, and object. Its products portfolio includes FlashArray for block-oriented storage, addressing databases, applications, virtual machines, and other traditional workloads; FlashArray//XL; and FlashArray//C, an all-QLC flash array. The company also provides FlashBlade, a solution for unstructured data workloads of various types; FlashStack that combines compute, network, and storage to provide an infrastructure platform; FlashRecover, an all-flash modern data-protection solution; and AIRI, a full-stack AI-ready infrastructure. In addition, it offers evergreen storage subscription, Pure as-a-Service, and Cloud Block Store, as well as Portworx a cloud-native Kubernetes data management solution It also offers technical and professional, training and education, and certification services. The company sells its products and subscription services through direct sales force and channel partners. The company was formerly known as OS76, Inc. and changed its name to Pure Storage, Inc. in January 2010. Pure Storage, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

About CPI Card Group

CPI Card Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, production, data personalization, packaging, and fulfillment of financial payment cards. It operates through Debit and Credit, and Prepaid Debit segments. The Debit and Credit segment produces financial payment cards and provides integrated card services to card-issuing financial institutions. Its products include Europay, Mastercard, and Visa (EMV) and non-EMV financial payment cards, including contact and contactless cards, plastic and encased metal cards, and Second Wave payment cards, as well as private label credit cards. This segment also provides on-demand services and various integrated card services, including card personalization and fulfillment, as well as instant issuance services. The Prepaid Debit segment primarily offers integrated card services comprising tamper-evident security packaging services to prepaid debit card providers. It also produces financial payment cards issued on the networks of the payment card brands. It serves issuers of debit and credit cards, Prepaid Debit Card program managers, community banks, credit unions, and group service providers in the United States. The company was formerly known as CPI Holdings I, Inc. and changed its name to CPI Card Group Inc. in August 2015. CPI Card Group Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Littleton, Colorado.