Comparing Alarum Technologies (ALAR) and Its Competitors

Alarum Technologies (NASDAQ:ALAR) is one of 953 public companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare Alarum Technologies to similar businesses based on the strength of its risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Alarum Technologies and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alarum Technologies	1	1	1	0	2.00
Alarum Technologies Competitors	5732	21470	44777	1493	2.57

Alarum Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 1,080.44%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 26.79%. Given Alarum Technologies’ higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Alarum Technologies is more favorable than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares Alarum Technologies and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alarum Technologies	2.53%	17.11%	12.65%
Alarum Technologies Competitors	-612.69%	20.88%	-8.98%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

3.2% of Alarum Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Alarum Technologies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of shares of all “Software” companies 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.

Volatility & Risk

Alarum Technologies has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alarum Technologies’ peers have a beta of 1.34, meaning that their average stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Alarum Technologies and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alarum Technologies	$40.76 million	$960,000.00	7.41
Alarum Technologies Competitors	$1.81 billion	$385.92 million	108.93

Alarum Technologies’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Alarum Technologies. Alarum Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Alarum Technologies peers beat Alarum Technologies on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

Alarum Technologies Company Profile

Alarum Technologies Ltd. provides internet access and web data collection solutions in North, South, and Central America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through two segments, Enterprise Internet Access Solutions and Consumer Internet Access Solutions. The company offers security blanket against ransomware, viruses, phishing, and other online threats, as well as secured and encrypted connection, masking the customers online activity and keeping them safe from hackers. It also provides privacy solutions and services, a software solution that uses an encryption protocol which is defined upon the process being used to generate a secured encrypted path and keep the users' data private and safe; and web data collection solution allows organizations to collect vast amounts of web and internet data by simultaneously connecting to the Internet from different IP addresses. In addition, the company offers static residential proxy network, rotating residential proxy network, data center proxy network, premium dedicated static residential proxies, mobile proxies, SERP data collection service, and social data collection service, as well as advertising services to enterprise customers. The company offers its products through resellers and internet service providers. It serves advertising and media companies, financial organizations, cyber security companies, industrial and commercial companies, online companies, education institutions, and AI recruitment market and other sectors. The company was formerly known as Safe-T Group Ltd. and changed its name to Alarum Technologies Ltd. in January 2023. Alarum Technologies Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.