Alarum Technologies (NASDAQ:ALAR – Get Free Report) and Manhattan Associates (NASDAQ:MANH – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
3.2% of Alarum Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Manhattan Associates shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Alarum Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Manhattan Associates shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Alarum Technologies and Manhattan Associates’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Alarum Technologies | 12.70% | 54.68% | 35.55% |
| Manhattan Associates | 21.38% | 84.55% | 32.32% |
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Alarum Technologies | $31.12 million | 3.01 | -$5.53 million | $0.78 | 17.47 |
| Manhattan Associates | $1.02 billion | 17.33 | $176.57 million | $3.52 | 82.60 |
Manhattan Associates has higher revenue and earnings than Alarum Technologies. Alarum Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Manhattan Associates, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Alarum Technologies and Manhattan Associates, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Alarum Technologies | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Manhattan Associates | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2.70 |
Alarum Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 120.10%. Manhattan Associates has a consensus target price of $290.78, suggesting a potential upside of 0.01%. Given Alarum Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Alarum Technologies is more favorable than Manhattan Associates.
Volatility & Risk
Alarum Technologies has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Manhattan Associates has a beta of 1.52, meaning that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Manhattan Associates beats Alarum Technologies on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Alarum Technologies
Alarum Technologies Ltd. provides internet access and web data collection solutions in North, South, and Central America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through two segments, Enterprise Internet Access Solutions and Consumer Internet Access Solutions. The company offers security blanket against ransomware, viruses, phishing, and other online threats, as well as secured and encrypted connection, masking the customers online activity and keeping them safe from hackers. It also provides privacy solutions and services, a software solution that uses an encryption protocol which is defined upon the process being used to generate a secured encrypted path and keep the users' data private and safe; and web data collection solution allows organizations to collect vast amounts of web and internet data by simultaneously connecting to the Internet from different IP addresses. In addition, the company offers static residential proxy network, rotating residential proxy network, data center proxy network, premium dedicated static residential proxies, mobile proxies, SERP data collection service, and social data collection service, as well as advertising services to enterprise customers. The company offers its products through resellers and internet service providers. It serves advertising and media companies, financial organizations, cyber security companies, industrial and commercial companies, online companies, education institutions, and AI recruitment market and other sectors. The company was formerly known as Safe-T Group Ltd. and changed its name to Alarum Technologies Ltd. in January 2023. Alarum Technologies Ltd. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
About Manhattan Associates
Manhattan Associates, Inc. develops, sells, deploys, services, and maintains software solutions to manage supply chains, inventory, and omni-channel operations. It offers Warehouse Management Solution for managing goods and information across the distribution centers; Manhattan Active Warehouse Management, a cloud native and version less application for the associate; and Transportation Management Solution for helping shippers navigate their way through the demands and meet customer service expectations at the lowest possible freight costs; Manhattan SCALE, a portfolio of logistics execution solution; and Manhattan Active Omni, which offers order management, store inventory and fulfillment, POS, and customer engagement tools for enterprises and stores. The company also provides inventory optimization and allocation solutions; technology platform including Manhattan Active Platform solutions, a cloud-native product designed to provide version-less product access; maintenance services, which offers on-premises software licensees with software upgrades for additional or improved functionality and technological advances; and professional services, such as solutions planning and implementation, and related consulting services. In addition, it provides training and change management services; and resells computer hardware, radio frequency terminal networks, radio frequency identification chip readers, bar code printers and scanners, and other peripherals. The company offers products through direct sales personnel and partnership agreements with various organizations. It serves retail, consumer goods, food and grocery, logistics service providers, industrial and wholesale, high technology and electronics, life sciences, and government industries. The company operates in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Manhattan Associates, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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