Comparing F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) and Pcs Edventures!.Com (OTCMKTS:PCSV)

Pcs Edventures!.Com (OTCMKTS:PCSV) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

90.7% of F5 shares are held by institutional investors. 49.3% of Pcs Edventures!.Com shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of F5 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

Pcs Edventures!.Com has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F5 has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Pcs Edventures!.Com and F5″s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pcs Edventures!.Com	$7.42 million	1.91	$950,000.00	N/A	N/A
F5	$3.14 billion	4.90	$692.38 million	$12.09	22.43

F5 has higher revenue and earnings than Pcs Edventures!.Com.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Pcs Edventures!.Com and F5, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pcs Edventures!.Com	0	0	0	0	0.00
F5	2	6	5	0	2.23

F5 has a consensus price target of $309.89, suggesting a potential upside of 14.26%. Given F5’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe F5 is more favorable than Pcs Edventures!.Com.

Profitability

This table compares Pcs Edventures!.Com and F5’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pcs Edventures!.Com	1.75%	1.26%	1.08%
F5	22.45%	22.08%	12.47%

Summary

F5 beats Pcs Edventures!.Com on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Pcs Edventures!.Com

PCS Edventures!, Inc. develops, markets, and distributes technology-based educational products and services to the pre-kindergarten through university classroom, the K-12 afterschool, the private learning center, and the home school markets in the United States and internationally. Its products include PCS Edventures! Labs, a learning center that offers teaching in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); and PCS BrickLab, a system of building blocks combined with PCS curriculum resources that address technology, math, construction engineering, communication, and science principles. The company also provides PCS Digital Media Labs, which contains lesson plans, a hard cover mobile case, digital cameras, camcorders or voice recorders, accessories, and a teacher guide; and PCS Academy of Engineering Lab, a STEM based program that is designed for use in tech-ed programs and for various environments through 10 student modules, such as hardware, software, lab furniture, and curriculum. In addition, it offers PCS Edventures Robotics system, a platform that provides various robotics lab implementations to its RiQ robot kits for home users, as well as engages students in various areas, including computer programming, physics, math, and other topics; PCS Discover STEM Lab, a modular program that provides activities for afterschool facilitators in the areas of STEM; summer camp packages, which offer summer camp solutions for schools and afterschool programs; and Riot, a racing drone product. PCS Edventures!, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is based in Boise, Idaho.

About F5

F5, Inc. provides multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. The company’s distributed cloud services enable its customers to deploy, secure, and operate applications in any architecture, from on-premises to the public cloud. It offers unified, security, networking, and application management solutions, such as web app and API protection; multi-cloud networking; application delivery and deployment; domain name system; content delivery network; and application deployment and orchestration. The company also provides application security and delivery products, including NGINX Plus; NGINX Management Suite; NGINX Ingress Controller; NGINX App Protect; BIG-IP Packaged Software; and BIG-IP Systems. In addition, it provides a range of professional services, including maintenance, consulting, training, and other technical support services. F5, Inc. sells its products to large enterprise businesses, public sector institutions, governments, and service providers through distributors, value-added resellers, managed service providers, systems integrators, and other indirect channel partners. It has partnerships with public cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The company was formerly known as F5 Networks, Inc. and changed its name to F5, Inc. in November 2021. F5, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.