Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE:DBD) vs. Everpure (NYSE:P) Critical Comparison

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE:DBD) and Everpure (NYSE:P) are both technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Diebold Nixdorf and Everpure, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Diebold Nixdorf	0	1	2	0	2.67
Everpure	1	2	18	1	2.86

Diebold Nixdorf presently has a consensus target price of $95.00, suggesting a potential upside of 72.41%. Everpure has a consensus target price of $143.25, suggesting a potential upside of 12.88%. Given Diebold Nixdorf’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Diebold Nixdorf is more favorable than Everpure.

Volatility & Risk

Diebold Nixdorf has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Everpure has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Diebold Nixdorf and Everpure”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Diebold Nixdorf	$3.81 billion	0.49	$94.60 million	$2.14	25.75
Everpure	$3.66 billion	11.55	$188.18 million	$0.73	173.85

Everpure has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Diebold Nixdorf. Diebold Nixdorf is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Everpure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Diebold Nixdorf and Everpure’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Diebold Nixdorf	1.96%	21.53%	5.78%
Everpure	5.94%	19.06%	5.89%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

97.0% of Diebold Nixdorf shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Everpure shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Diebold Nixdorf shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Everpure shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Everpure beats Diebold Nixdorf on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Diebold Nixdorf

Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated engages in the automating, digitizing, and transforming the way people bank and shop worldwide. It operates through two segments, Banking and Retail. The company offers cash recyclers and dispensers, intelligent deposit terminals, teller automation tools, and kiosk technologies, as well as physical security solutions; and front-end applications for consumer connection points and back-end platforms that manage channel transactions, operations and integration, and facilitate omnichannel transactions, endpoint monitoring, remote asset management, customer marketing, merchandise management, and analytics. It also provides banking product-related services comprising proactive monitoring and rapid resolution of incidents through remote service capabilities or an on-site visit; first- and second-line maintenance, preventive maintenance, and on-demand services; managed and outsourcing services, such as business processes, solution management, upgrades, and transaction processing; and cash management services. In addition, the company offers DN Vynamic software suite to simplify and enhance the consumer experience; modular and integrated point of sale and self-checkout terminals; printers, scales, and mobile scanners; and banknote and coin processing systems, as well as ordering kiosks. Additionally, it provides retail customer's product-related services, such as on-demand and professional services; maintenance and availability services; implementation services; managed mobility services; monitoring and advanced analytics; and store life-cycle management services. The company was formerly known as Diebold, Incorporated and changed its name to Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated in December 2016. Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated was founded in 1859 and is headquartered in North Canton, Ohio.

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.