Asana (NYSE:ASAN – Get Free Report) and monday.com (NASDAQ:MNDY – Get Free Report) are both mid-cap technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and profitability.
Risk and Volatility
Asana has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, monday.com has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Asana and monday.com, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Asana | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2.07 |
| monday.com | 0 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 2.48 |
Asana presently has a consensus price target of $9.95, suggesting a potential downside of 11.48%. monday.com has a consensus price target of $107.35, suggesting a potential upside of 14.15%. Given monday.com’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe monday.com is more favorable than Asana.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Asana and monday.com”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Asana | $790.81 million | 3.26 | -$189.02 million | ($0.66) | -17.04 |
| monday.com | $1.23 billion | 3.91 | $118.74 million | $2.35 | 40.02 |
monday.com has higher revenue and earnings than Asana. Asana is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than monday.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
26.2% of Asana shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.7% of monday.com shares are held by institutional investors. 87.5% of Asana shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.3% of monday.com shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Asana and monday.com’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Asana | -18.62% | -80.33% | -14.19% |
| monday.com | 8.87% | 9.09% | 4.73% |
Summary
monday.com beats Asana on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Asana
Asana, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a work management platform for individuals, team leads, and executives in the United States and internationally. Its platform helps organizations to orchestrate work from daily tasks to cross-functional strategic initiatives; manage work across a portfolio of projects or workflows, see progress against goals, identify bottlenecks, resource constraints, and milestones; and communicate company-wide goals, monitor status, and oversee work across projects and portfolios to gain real-time insights. The company serves customers in various industries, such as technology, retail, education, non-profit, government, healthcare, hospitality, media, manufacturing, professional services, and financial services. The company was formerly known as Smiley Abstractions, Inc. and changed its name to Asana, Inc. in July 2009. Asana, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
About monday.com
monday.com Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, develops software applications in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company provides Work OS, a cloud-based visual work operating system that consists of modular building blocks used and assembled to create software applications and work management tools. Its products include monday work management that manages workflows, projects, and portfolios for team collaboration and productivity; monday sales CRM, whcih tracks and manages various sales cycle; monday dev that builds agile product and software development workflows; WorkCanvas, a digital whiteboard; and WorkForms, which allows users to create personalized forms or surveys and gain organizational insights. It serves organizations, educational or government institution, and distinct business unit of an organization. The company was formerly known as DaPulse Labs Ltd. and changed its name to monday.com Ltd. in December 2017. monday.com Ltd. was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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