Analyzing AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP) & Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS)

AppYea (OTCMKTS:APYP) and Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AppYea	N/A	N/A	-269.35%
Zscaler	-1.58%	-0.75%	-0.20%

Volatility & Risk

AppYea has a beta of 2.13, indicating that its share price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Zscaler has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AppYea	N/A	N/A	-$1.82 million	N/A	N/A
Zscaler	$2.17 billion	13.47	-$57.71 million	($0.25)	-761.31

AppYea has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Zscaler.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

46.5% of Zscaler shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of AppYea shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of Zscaler shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations for AppYea and Zscaler, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
AppYea	0	0	0	0	0.00
Zscaler	0	11	23	0	2.68

Zscaler has a consensus price target of $225.47, suggesting a potential upside of 18.46%. Given Zscaler’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Zscaler is more favorable than AppYea.

Summary

Zscaler beats AppYea on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About AppYea

AppYea, Inc., a digital health company, develops wearable monitoring solutions to treat sleep apnea and snoring. It develops AppySleep app, a wristband that monitors physiological parameters during sleep; AppySleep, a biofeedback snoring treatment wristband; AppySleep LAB, a smartphone medical application that monitors breathing patterns in the sleep and identify sleep arena episode without direct contact to the user; and AppySleep PRO a wristband for the treatment of sleep arena using biofeedback in combination with AppySleep LAB app. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Gan Yavne, Israel.

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.