Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) versus Santo Mining (OTCMKTS:SANP) Critical Review

Santo Mining (OTCMKTS:SANP) and Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Santo Mining and Zscaler”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Santo Mining	N/A	N/A	N/A	($0.02)	-0.32
Zscaler	$2.67 billion	10.99	-$41.48 million	($0.48)	-378.63

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

46.5% of Zscaler shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.2% of Zscaler shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Santo Mining and Zscaler’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Santo Mining	N/A	N/A	N/A
Zscaler	-2.44%	-0.37%	-0.12%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Santo Mining and Zscaler, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Santo Mining	0	0	0	0	0.00
Zscaler	1	6	34	0	2.80

Zscaler has a consensus target price of $215.36, suggesting a potential upside of 18.50%. Given Zscaler’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Zscaler is more favorable than Santo Mining.

Summary

Zscaler beats Santo Mining on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Santo Mining

Santo Mining Corp., doing business as Santo Blockchain Labs, operates as a vertically integrated blockchain and cryptocurrency development company in Vietnam and the Republic of Panama. The company manages, operates, and develops end-to-end Blockchain-as-a-Service. It also develops smart digital contracts, non-fungible tokens, digital to physical assets tokenization, eXetended reality, and Internet of Things solutions. The company was formerly known as Santo Pita Corp. and changed its name to Santo Mining Corp. in March 2012. Santo Mining Corp. was founded in 2009 and is based in Aventura, Florida.

About Zscaler

Zscaler, Inc. operates as a cloud security company worldwide. The company offers Zscaler Internet Access solution that provides users, workloads, IoT, and OT devices secure access to externally managed applications, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and internet destinations; and Zscaler Private Access solution, which is designed to provide access to managed applications hosted internally in data centers, and private or public clouds. It also provides Zscaler Digital Experience that measures end-to-end user experience across business applications, as well as provides an easy-to-understand digital experience score for each user, application, and location within an enterprise. In addition, the company offers Posture Control solutions comprising Cloud Security Posture Management that identifies and remediates application misconfigurations in SaaS, infrastructure as a service, and PaaS to reduce risk and ensure compliance with industry and organizational benchmarks; Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management that detects and remediates excessive or unused cloud permissions and enforces least privileged access without disrupting productivity; Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which analyzes IaC templates to identify misconfigurations and other security issues prior to deployment to cloud infrastructure; and Vulnerability Scanning and Data Loss Prevention solutions. Its platform modules include Zscaler Central Authority, Zscaler Enforcement Node, and Zscaler Log Servers. The company serves customers in airlines and transportation, conglomerates, consumer goods and retail, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and communications, public sector and education, technology, and telecommunications services industries. The company was formerly known as SafeChannel, Inc., and changed its name to Zscaler, Inc. in August 2008. Zscaler, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.