CPI Card Group (NASDAQ:PMTS – Get Free Report) and Everpure (NYSE:P – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
Profitability
This table compares CPI Card Group and Everpure’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| CPI Card Group | 2.34% | -131.31% | 6.25% |
| Everpure | 5.75% | 15.97% | 5.07% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current ratings for CPI Card Group and Everpure, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| CPI Card Group | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2.67 |
| Everpure | 1 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 2.71 |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
22.1% of CPI Card Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.4% of Everpure shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of CPI Card Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Everpure shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility and Risk
CPI Card Group has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Everpure has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares CPI Card Group and Everpure”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| CPI Card Group | $543.53 million | 0.62 | $14.95 million | $1.15 | 25.22 |
| Everpure | $3.94 billion | 9.90 | $188.18 million | $0.66 | 177.71 |
Everpure has higher revenue and earnings than CPI Card Group. CPI Card Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Everpure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Everpure beats CPI Card Group on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About CPI Card Group
CPI Card Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, production, data personalization, packaging, and fulfillment of financial payment cards. It operates through Debit and Credit, and Prepaid Debit segments. The Debit and Credit segment produces financial payment cards and provides integrated card services to card-issuing financial institutions. Its products include Europay, Mastercard, and Visa (EMV) and non-EMV financial payment cards, including contact and contactless cards, plastic and encased metal cards, and Second Wave payment cards, as well as private label credit cards. This segment also provides on-demand services and various integrated card services, including card personalization and fulfillment, as well as instant issuance services. The Prepaid Debit segment primarily offers integrated card services comprising tamper-evident security packaging services to prepaid debit card providers. It also produces financial payment cards issued on the networks of the payment card brands. It serves issuers of debit and credit cards, Prepaid Debit Card program managers, community banks, credit unions, and group service providers in the United States. The company was formerly known as CPI Holdings I, Inc. and changed its name to CPI Card Group Inc. in August 2015. CPI Card Group Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Littleton, Colorado.
About Everpure
Pure Storage, Inc. provides data storage technologies, products, and services in the United States and internationally. The company’s Purity software is shared across its products and provides enterprise-class data services, such as data reduction, data protection, and encryption, as well as storage protocols, including block, file, and object. Its products portfolio includes FlashArray for block-oriented storage, addressing databases, applications, virtual machines, and other traditional workloads; FlashArray//XL; and FlashArray//C, an all-QLC flash array. The company also provides FlashBlade, a solution for unstructured data workloads of various types; FlashStack that combines compute, network, and storage to provide an infrastructure platform; FlashRecover, an all-flash modern data-protection solution; and AIRI, a full-stack AI-ready infrastructure. In addition, it offers evergreen storage subscription, Pure as-a-Service, and Cloud Block Store, as well as Portworx a cloud-native Kubernetes data management solution It also offers technical and professional, training and education, and certification services. The company sells its products and subscription services through direct sales force and channel partners. The company was formerly known as OS76, Inc. and changed its name to Pure Storage, Inc. in January 2010. Pure Storage, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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