Locafy (NASDAQ:LCFY) vs. Tenable (NASDAQ:TENB) Critical Survey

Locafy (NASDAQ:LCFY) and Tenable (NASDAQ:TENB) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and risk.

Risk and Volatility

Locafy has a beta of 1.96, meaning that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tenable has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Locafy	$3.58 million	2.82	-$1.96 million	($1.23)	-5.93
Tenable	$900.02 million	3.97	-$36.30 million	($0.37)	-79.78

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.0% of Locafy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Tenable shares are held by institutional investors. 28.7% of Locafy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Tenable 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Locafy and Tenable, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Locafy	0	0	0	0	0.00
Tenable	0	8	9	0	2.53

Tenable has a consensus target price of $41.06, indicating a potential upside of 39.10%. Given Tenable’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Tenable is more favorable than Locafy.

Profitability

This table compares Locafy and Tenable’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Locafy	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tenable	-4.74%	-3.32%	-0.76%

About Locafy

Locafy Limited operates as a software-as-a-service company (SaaS) that specializes in search engine marketing in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North America, and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Publishing, Direct Sales, and Reseller Sales. It focuses on commercializing its SaaS online publishing technology platform that comprises an integrated suite of solutions. The company also owns and operates several online directories and offers search engine optimization solutions, which include creation of proximity pages and proximity networks, local pages, and map pack booster. In addition, its platform publishes content to various devices that uses a web browser to display web content, as well as programmatically optimizes the published content for local search. The company offers its solutions directly to customers, as well as through digital agencies and search engine optimization freelancers. The company was formerly known as Moboom Limited and changed its name to Locafy Limited in January 2021. Locafy Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Subiaco, Australia.

About Tenable

Tenable Holdings, Inc. provides cyber exposure solutions for in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Japan. Its platforms include Tenable Vulnerability Management, a cloud-delivered software as a service that provides organizations with a risk-based view of traditional and modern attack surfaces; Tenable Cloud Security, a cloud-native cloud security solutions for security teams to continuously assess the security posture; Tenable Identity Exposure, a solution to secure Active Directory environments; Tenable Web App Scanning, which provides scanning for modern web applications; Tenable Lumin Exposure View, a measurement tool; Tenable Attack Surface Management, an external attack surface management solution; Tenable Security Center, an on-premises solution that provides a risk-based view of an organization’s IT, security and compliance posture; and Tenable OT Security, an operational technology security solution which provides threat detection, asset tracking, vulnerability management, and configuration control capabilities. The company also offers Nessus, a vulnerability assessment solution for cybersecurity industry and enterprise platform; and Nessus Expert, that enables users to programmatically detect cloud infrastructure misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in the design and build phase. Tenable Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.