As Application Software businesses, Immersion Corporation (NASDAQ:IMMR) and Elastic N.V. (NYSE:ESTC), are affected by compare. This especially applies to 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
Immersion Corporation	107.01M	2.83	45.19M	1.90	4.55
Elastic N.V.	211.47M	30.44	80.85M	-1.15	0.00

Table 1 shows the top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation for Immersion Corporation and Elastic N.V.

Profitability

Table 2 provides us the return on equity, return on assets and net margins of both companies.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Immersion Corporation	42.23%	57%	35.8%
Elastic N.V.	-38.23%	0%	0%

Liquidity

Immersion Corporation’s Current Ratio is 10.2 while its Quick Ratio is 10.2. On the competitive side is, Elastic N.V. which has a 1 Current Ratio and a 1 Quick Ratio. Immersion Corporation is better positioned to pay off short and long-term obligations compared to Elastic N.V.

Analyst Ratings

Immersion Corporation and Elastic N.V. Recommendations and Ratings are available in the next table.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Immersion Corporation	0	0	1	3.00
Elastic N.V.	0	0	0	0.00

Immersion Corporation’s average target price is $15, while its potential upside is 52.75%.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

Immersion Corporation and Elastic N.V. has shares held by institutional investors as follows: 64.9% and 25.2%. About 0.5% of Immersion Corporation’s share are held by insiders. Competitively, 22.7% are Elastic N.V.’s share held by insiders.

Performance

In this table we show 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)
Immersion Corporation	-8.85%	-10.92%	-17.38%	-48.3%	20.98%	22.52%
Elastic N.V.	2.07%	1.01%	0%	0%	0%	4.19%

For the past year Immersion Corporation’s stock price has bigger growth than Elastic N.V.

Summary

Immersion Corporation beats on 10 of the 12 factors Elastic N.V.

Immersion Corporation creates, designs, develops, and licenses haptic technologies in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its technologies allow people to use their sense of touch when they engage with various digital products. The company offers TouchSense Lite and TouchSense Premium toolkits that enable original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers to add customized haptic technologies to their own branded devices and other products. It also provides TouchSense Software Development Kits, which consist of design tools, integration software, and effect libraries that allow for the design, encoding, and playback of tactile effects in mobile content, including games, ads, and video. In addition, the company offers TouchSense Ads that consists of mobile video advertisements from brand advertisers that have been enabled to playback with haptic effects on Android mobile devices; and TouchSense Force, which comprises design tools, APIs, reference designs, and firmware for the PC/Console gaming/virtual reality markets. In addition, the company licenses its patents to implement the licensed software to customers. Further, it provides engineering and integration services, design kits for prototyping, authoring tools, application programming interfaces, and platform independent solutions. The company offers its products to mobile communications, wearables, and consumer electronics; console and PC gaming; automotive; and medical markets. Immersion Corporation was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Elastic N.V. develops and delivers technology that enables users to search structured and unstructured data for a range of consumer and enterprise applications. It primarily provides Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization. Its Elastic Stack comprises products, such as Elasticsearch, a distributed, real-time search and analytics engine, and data store for various types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the Elastic Stack; Beats, a single-purpose data shippers for sending data from edge machines to Elasticsearch or Logstash; and Logstash, a data processing pipeline for ingesting data into Elasticsearch or other storage systems. The company also offers software solutions on the Elastic Stack that address cases, including app search, site search, enterprise search, logging, metrics, application performance monitoring, business analytics, and security analytics. Its products are used by individual developers and organizations of a range of industries. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.