StoneCo Ltd. (NASDAQ:STNE) and Elastic N.V. (NYSE:ESTC) compete with each other in the Application Software sector. We will analyze and compare their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
StoneCo Ltd.	N/A	0.00	N/A	0.19	170.21
Elastic N.V.	240.63M	24.33	88.87M	-1.13	0.00

We can see in table 1 the earnings per share (EPS), gross revenue and valuation of StoneCo Ltd. and Elastic N.V.

Profitability

Table 2 provides the net margins, return on equity and return on assets of the two firms.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
StoneCo Ltd.	0.00%	0%	0%
Elastic N.V.	-36.93%	0%	0%

Liquidity

StoneCo Ltd.’s Current Ratio is 1.4 while its Quick Ratio is 1.4. On the competitive side is, Elastic N.V. which has a 2.6 Current Ratio and a 2.6 Quick Ratio. Elastic N.V. is better positioned to pay off short and long-term obligations compared to StoneCo Ltd.

Analyst Ratings

Ratings and Recommendations for StoneCo Ltd. and Elastic N.V. can be find in next table.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
StoneCo Ltd.	0	0	1	3.00
Elastic N.V.	0	1	1	2.50

StoneCo Ltd.’s upside potential is 2.16% at a $42 consensus price target. Elastic N.V. on the other hand boasts of a $103.5 consensus price target and a 29.59% potential upside. Based on the data delivered earlier, Elastic N.V. is looking more favorable than StoneCo Ltd., analysts view.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

The shares of both StoneCo Ltd. and Elastic N.V. are owned by institutional investors at 80.7% and 50.2% respectively. StoneCo Ltd.’s share owned by insiders are 25.18%. Comparatively, Elastic N.V. has 22.2% of it’s share owned by insiders.

Performance

In this table we provide 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)
StoneCo Ltd.	9.03%	44.67%	33.17%	0%	0%	73.54%
Elastic N.V.	-7.67%	6%	27.6%	0%	0%	26.05%

For the past year StoneCo Ltd. has stronger performance than Elastic N.V.

Summary

StoneCo Ltd. beats on 6 of the 10 factors Elastic N.V.

StoneCo Ltd. provides financial technology solutions that empower merchants and integrated partners to conduct electronic commerce across in-store, online, and mobile channels in Brazil. It distributes its solutions, principally through proprietary Stone Hubs, which offer hyper-local sales and services; and technology and solutions to digital merchants through sales and technical personnel and software vendors. As of June 30, 2018, the company served approximately 200,000 clients, which included digital, and brick-and-mortar merchants, primarily small-and-medium-sized businesses; and 95 integrated partners, such as global payment service providers, digital marketplaces, and integrated software vendors. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

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.