Thryv (NASDAQ:THRY) & Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) Head to Head Analysis

Thryv (NASDAQ:THRY) and Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Thryv and Elastic”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Thryv	$785.02 million	0.22	$310,000.00	$0.32	12.00
Elastic	$1.48 billion	3.75	-$108.11 million	($0.80)	-67.12

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

Profitability

This table compares Thryv and Elastic’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Thryv	1.88%	6.58%	2.09%
Elastic	-5.04%	-2.34%	-0.84%

Risk & Volatility

Thryv has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Elastic has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

96.4% of Thryv shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Elastic shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.9% of Thryv shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.7% of Elastic shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Thryv and Elastic, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Thryv	1	4	2	0	2.14
Elastic	1	12	17	0	2.53

Thryv presently has a consensus target price of $9.50, indicating a potential upside of 147.40%. Elastic has a consensus target price of $89.80, indicating a potential upside of 67.24%. Given Thryv’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Thryv is more favorable than Elastic.

Summary

Thryv beats Elastic on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Thryv

Thryv Holdings, Inc. provides digital marketing solutions and cloud-based tools to the small-to-medium sized businesses in the United States. It operates through four segments: Thryv U.S. Marketing Services, Thryv U.S. SaaS, Thryv International Marketing Services, and Thryv International SaaS. The company provides print yellow pages, internet yellow pages, and search engine marketing; and other digital media solutions, such as online display and social advertising, online presence and video, and search engine optimization tools. It also offers command center that enables SMBs to centralize all their communication through a modular, expandable, and customizable platform; and business center, a SMB end-to-end customer experience platform, which offers customer relationship management, appointment scheduling, estimate and invoice creation, payments, document management, social media content, and online review management. In addition, the company provides marketing center, a marketing and advertising platform for AutoID, enhanced online presence, omni-channel paid campaigns, and marketing tools; Thryv Add-ons provides AI-assisted website development, SEO tools, google business profile optimization, and Hub by Thryv; and ThryvPay, a payment solution that allows users to get paid via credit card and ACH. The company was formerly known as Dex Media Holdings, Inc. Thryv Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in DFW Airport, Texas.

About Elastic

Elastic N.V., a data analytics company, delivers solutions designed to run in public or private clouds in multi-cloud environments. It primarily offers Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization on that data. The company's Elastic Stack product portfolio comprises Elasticsearch, a distributed, real-time search and analytics engine, and data store for various types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the Elastic Stack; Elastic Agent that offers integrated host protection and central management services; Beats, a single-purpose data shippers for sending data from edge machines to Elasticsearch or Logstash; and Logstash, a data processing pipeline for ingesting data into Elasticsearch or other storage systems from a multitude of sources simultaneously. It also provides software solutions on the Elastic Stack that address cases, including search applications, workplace search, logs, metrics, application performance monitoring, synthetic monitoring, security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint security, extended detection and response, and cloud security. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.