Varonis Systems (NASDAQ:VRNS) & Alarum Technologies (NASDAQ:ALAR) Financial Survey

Alarum Technologies (NASDAQ:ALAR) and Varonis Systems (NASDAQ:VRNS) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Alarum Technologies and Varonis Systems, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alarum Technologies	1	1	1	0	2.00
Varonis Systems	1	7	16	0	2.62

Alarum Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 629.17%. Varonis Systems has a consensus price target of $49.79, indicating a potential upside of 10.35%. Given Alarum Technologies’ higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Alarum Technologies is more favorable than Varonis Systems.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

3.2% of Alarum Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.7% of Varonis Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Alarum Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Varonis Systems shares are held 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.

Volatility & Risk

Alarum Technologies has a beta of 1.72, indicating that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Varonis Systems has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Alarum Technologies and Varonis Systems”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alarum Technologies	$45.33 million	0.31	$960,000.00	$0.16	12.00
Varonis Systems	$623.53 million	8.31	-$129.32 million	($1.23)	-36.68

Alarum Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Varonis Systems. Varonis Systems is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alarum Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Alarum Technologies and Varonis Systems’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alarum Technologies	2.53%	17.11%	12.65%
Varonis Systems	-20.55%	-19.18%	-5.97%

Summary

Alarum Technologies beats Varonis Systems on 8 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 Varonis Systems

Varonis Systems, Inc. provides software products and services that allow enterprises to manage, analyze, alert, and secure enterprise data in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. Its software enables enterprises to protect data stored on premises and in the cloud, including sensitive files and emails; confidential personal data belonging to customers, and patients and employees' data; financial records; source code, strategic and product plans; and other intellectual property. It offers DatAdvantage that captures, aggregates, normalizes, and analyzes every data access event for users on Windows and UNIX/Linux servers, storage devices, email systems, intranet servers, cloud applications, and data stores; and DatAlert that profiles users, devices, and their behaviors related to systems and data, detects and alerts on deviations that indicate compromise, and provides a web-based dashboard and investigative interface. It also provides data Classification engine that identifies and tags data based on criteria set in various metadata dimensions, as well as provides business and information technology (IT) personnel with actionable intelligence about data; and DataPrivilege. In addition, the company offers Data Transport Engine, an execution engine that unifies the manipulation of data and metadata, translating business decisions, and instructions into technical commands, such as data migration or archiving; and DatAnswers that provides search functionality for enterprise data. It serves its products to financial services, public, healthcare, industrial, technology, insurance, energy and utilities, consumer and retail, education and construction, and engineering sectors. The company sells its products through a network of distributors and resellers. Varonis Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in New York, New York.