Atlassian (TEAM) & Its Rivals Head to Head Analysis

Atlassian (NASDAQ:TEAM) is one of 954 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Atlassian to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

94.5% of Atlassian shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 37.6% of Atlassian 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Atlassian and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Atlassian	$6.57 billion	-$53.83 million	-1,009.05
Atlassian Competitors	$1.80 billion	$385.92 million	111.21

Atlassian has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its peers. Atlassian 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Atlassian and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Atlassian	1	4	23	0	2.79
Atlassian Competitors	5714	21418	44674	1492	2.57

Atlassian presently has a consensus price target of $215.08, suggesting a potential upside of 12.18%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 27.94%. Given Atlassian’s peers higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Atlassian has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Volatility & Risk

Atlassian has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atlassian’s peers have a beta of 1.26, meaning that their average stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atlassian	-0.82%	20.99%	4.36%
Atlassian Competitors	-612.31%	21.01%	-8.89%

Summary

Atlassian beats its peers on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About Atlassian

Atlassian Corporation, through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, licenses, and maintains various software products worldwide. Its product portfolio includes Jira Software and Jira Work Management, a project management system that connects technical and business teams so they can better plan, organize, track and manage their work and projects; Confluence, a connected workspace that organizes knowledge across all teams to move work forward; and Trello, a collaboration and organization product that captures and adds structure to fluid and fast-forming work for teams. The company also offers Jira Service Management, an intuitive and flexible service desk product for creating and managing service experiences for various service team providers, such as IT, legal, and HR teams; and Jira Align, an Atlassian's enterprise agility solution designed to help businesses to adapt and respond dynamic business conditions with a focus on value-creation. In addition, it provides Bitbucket, an enterprise-ready Git solution that enables professional dev teams to manage, collaborate, and deploy quality code; Atlassian Access, an enterprise-wide product for enhanced security and centralized administration that works across every Atlassian cloud product; and Jira Product, a prioritization and road mapping tool. Further, the company's portfolio includes Atlas, a teamwork directory; Bamboo, a continuous delivery pipeline; Crowd, a single sign-on; Crucible, a collaborative code review; Fisheye, a search, track, and visualize code change software; and Compass, a developer experience platform. Additionally, it offers Opsgenie, an on-call and alert management software; Sourcetree, a free git client for windows and mac; Statuspage that communicates real-time status to users; Beacon, an intelligent threat detection software; and Atlassian Access that enhance data security and governance for Atlassian Cloud products. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.