Rubrik (NYSE:RBRK) & UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Head-To-Head Analysis

UiPath (NYSE:PATH) and Rubrik (NYSE:RBRK) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
UiPath	2	14	2	0	2.00
Rubrik	1	2	17	0	2.80

UiPath presently has a consensus target price of $13.71, indicating a potential upside of 1.20%. Rubrik has a consensus target price of $109.40, indicating a potential upside of 56.67%. Given Rubrik’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Rubrik is more favorable than UiPath.

Volatility and Risk

UiPath has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rubrik has a beta of 0.2, indicating that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares UiPath and Rubrik’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
UiPath	1.35%	1.28%	0.83%
Rubrik	-41.00%	N/A	-26.88%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares UiPath and Rubrik”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
UiPath	$1.43 billion	5.03	-$73.69 million	$0.03	451.70
Rubrik	$1.08 billion	12.74	-$1.15 billion	($2.34)	-29.84

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

62.5% of UiPath shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.5% of Rubrik shares are held by institutional investors. 23.2% of UiPath shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.4% of Rubrik shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

UiPath beats Rubrik on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About UiPath

UiPath Inc. provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers a suite of interrelated software to build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automation within the organization. Its platform's embedded AI, ML, and NLP capabilities improve decisioning and information processing; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; multi-tenant platform enterprise deployment with security and governance and Automation Cloud, which enables customers to begin automating without the need to provision infrastructure, install applications, or perform additional configurations; intuitive interface and low-code, drag-and-drop functionality; signed to enable people and automations to work together; and tracks, measures, and forecasts the performance of automations, enables customers to gain powerful insights and generate key performance indicators with actionable metric. It serves banking and financial services, healthcare, insurance, public sectors, manufacturing, retail, and telecom industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

About Rubrik

Rubrik, Inc. provides data security solutions to individuals and businesses worldwide. The company offers enterprise data protection, unstructured data protection, cloud data protection, and SaaS data protection solutions; data threat analytics; data security posture; and cyber recovery solutions. It serves financial, retail, trade, transportation, energy, industrial, healthcare and life science, education, technology, media, communications, and public sectors. Rubrik, Inc. was formerly known as Scaledata, Inc. and changed its name to Rubrik, Inc. in October 2014. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Palo Alto, California.