Asana (NYSE:ASAN – Get Free Report) and monday.com (NASDAQ:MNDY – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Asana and monday.com”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Asana | $790.81 million | 2.90 | -$189.02 million | ($0.66) | -15.19 |
| monday.com | $1.23 billion | 3.32 | $118.74 million | $2.35 | 34.01 |
monday.com has higher revenue and earnings than Asana. Asana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than monday.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Volatility and Risk
Asana has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, monday.com has a beta of 1.06, indicating that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Asana and monday.com, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Asana | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2.07 |
| monday.com | 0 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 2.40 |
Asana currently has a consensus target price of $9.95, suggesting a potential downside of 0.72%. monday.com has a consensus target price of $105.61, suggesting a potential upside of 32.13%. Given monday.com’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe monday.com is more favorable than Asana.
Profitability
This table compares Asana and monday.com’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Asana | -18.62% | -80.33% | -14.19% |
| monday.com | 8.87% | 9.09% | 4.73% |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
26.2% of Asana shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of monday.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 87.5% of Asana shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.3% of monday.com shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
monday.com beats Asana on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Asana
Asana, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a work management platform for individuals, team leads, and executives in the United States and internationally. Its platform helps organizations to orchestrate work from daily tasks to cross-functional strategic initiatives; manage work across a portfolio of projects or workflows, see progress against goals, identify bottlenecks, resource constraints, and milestones; and communicate company-wide goals, monitor status, and oversee work across projects and portfolios to gain real-time insights. The company serves customers in various industries, such as technology, retail, education, non-profit, government, healthcare, hospitality, media, manufacturing, professional services, and financial services. The company was formerly known as Smiley Abstractions, Inc. and changed its name to Asana, Inc. in July 2009. Asana, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
About monday.com
monday.com Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops software applications in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company provides Work OS, a cloud-based visual work operating system that consists of modular building blocks used and assembled to create software applications and work management tools. Its products include monday work management that manages workflows, projects, and portfolios for team collaboration and productivity; monday sales CRM, whcih tracks and manages various sales cycle; monday dev that builds agile product and software development workflows; WorkCanvas, a digital whiteboard; and WorkForms, which allows users to create personalized forms or surveys and gain organizational insights. It serves organizations, educational or government institution, and distinct business unit of an organization. The company was formerly known as DaPulse Labs Ltd. and changed its name to monday.com Ltd. in December 2017. monday.com Ltd. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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