Bridgeline Digital Inc. (NASDAQ:BLIN) and Pivotal Software Inc. (NYSE:PVTL), both competing one another are Application Software companies. We will compare their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership.
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | 11.97M | 0.27 | 12.06M | -1.63 | 0.00 |
| Pivotal Software Inc. | 621.53M | 9.52 | 140.21M | -0.74 | 0.00 |
We can see in table 1 the earnings per share (EPS), gross revenue and valuation of Bridgeline Digital Inc. and Pivotal Software Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 provides the return on assets, return on equity and net margins of the two firms.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | -100.75% | -72.8% | -43% |
| Pivotal Software Inc. | -22.56% | 0% | 0% |
Liquidity
Bridgeline Digital Inc.’s Current Ratio is 1 while its Quick Ratio is 1. On the competitive side is, Pivotal Software Inc. which has a 2.6 Current Ratio and a 2.6 Quick Ratio. Pivotal Software Inc. is better positioned to pay off short and long-term obligations compared to Bridgeline Digital Inc.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Roughly 3% of Bridgeline Digital Inc. shares are held by institutional investors while 69.1% of Pivotal Software Inc. are owned by institutional investors. Insiders held 25.02% of Bridgeline Digital Inc. shares. Insiders Comparatively, held 1.2% of Pivotal Software Inc. shares.
Performance
Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.
| Performance (W) | Performance (M) | Performance (Q) | Performance (HY) | Performance (Y) | Performance (YTD) | |
| Bridgeline Digital Inc. | -11.37% | -21.47% | -70.17% | -74.36% | -86.57% | -87.22% |
| Pivotal Software Inc. | 0.67% | -3.89% | -33.02% | -13.9% | 0% | 14.62% |
For the past year Bridgeline Digital Inc. had bearish trend while Pivotal Software Inc. had bullish trend.
Summary
Pivotal Software Inc. beats Bridgeline Digital Inc. on 9 of the 10 factors.
Bridgeline Digital, Inc. operates as a digital engagement company in the United States. The companyÂ’s iAPPS platform enables companies and developers to create Websites, Web applications, and online stores. It offers iAPPS Experience Manager, a marketing automation engine and content management system; iAPPS Content Manager that enables non-technical users to create, edit, and publish content via a browser-based interface; and iAPPS Commerce, an online B2B and B2C e-commerce solution, which allows users to manage domestic and international commerce initiatives. The company also provides iAPPS Marketier, an online marketing management solution that helps marketers drive to their sites through personalized and targeted marketing automation flows; and iAPPS Analyzer to manage, measure, and optimize Web properties by recording detailed events and mining data for statistical analysis. In addition, it offers iAPPS Social, a social media management solution that empowers customers to set up customized watch lists; and iAPPSds, a Web content management and e-commerce platform to multi-unit organizations and franchises. Further, the company provides digital strategy, Web design and development, usability engineering, information architecture, and search engine optimization services; co-location, application monitoring, emergency response, version control, load balancing, managed firewall security, and virus protection services; and shared, dedicated, and Software as a Service hosting services. It serves vertical markets, such as financial services, franchises/multi-unit organizations, retail brand names, health services and life sciences, technology, credit unions and regional banks, and associations and foundations through its direct sales force. The company was formerly known as Bridgeline Software, Inc. and changed its name to Bridgeline Digital, Inc. in March 2010. Bridgeline Digital, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Pivotal Software, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides an integrated solution that combines a cloud-native application platform and services in the United States. Its cloud-native platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), accelerates and streamlines software development by reducing the complexity of building, deploying, and operating modern applications. The company also enables its customers to accelerate their adoption of a modern software development process and their business success using its platform through its strategic services, Pivotal Labs (Labs). Pivotal Software, Inc. markets and sells PCF and Labs through its sales force and ecosystem partners. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
